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Post by Fiasco on Mar 12, 2007 22:32:44 GMT
Is it just me or is anyone else already fed up with those two words Carbon Footprint I had never heard of it two months ago and now I want to throttle everyone that uses it !! Even "Blue Sky Thinking" and "In General Terms" seem more palletable after this one !! Don't get me wrong, I am very sensitive to the environment and all the damage we are doing but do we have to do these two words to death. My company have a header on all e-mails which says: - "Just think, do you really need to print out this email? Together we can make our carbon footprint a size smaller" Oh yes very nice, and we have eased our conscience a bit - but we are a printing company FFS !! I propose a motion to ban the words "Carbon Footprint" from this site - anyone want to second that motion ?? Well I thought I would "Put it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes" Grrrrrrr  Rant over, I'll get me coat !! Dave ;D |
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Post by teffort on Mar 12, 2007 23:08:29 GMT
Nice brain dump Dave - I think we're all singing off the same hymn sheet here. Just need a bit of joined up thinking and we can get our ducks in a row, push the envelope and pick off the low hanging fruit [1].
[1] If Derefood reads this, please don't take this as an insult.
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Post by suzukikidontheloose53 on Mar 12, 2007 23:48:48 GMT
I'll second it Dave, and also want to ban:environmentally friendly and green credentials.  |
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Post by Pooh(c) on Mar 13, 2007 0:23:44 GMT
and if we all get our act together we can leverage the synergies
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Post by biwoz on Mar 13, 2007 5:05:01 GMT
And I want nothing to do with that gerbil worming stuff ......
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Post by 2old2boogie on Mar 13, 2007 8:22:14 GMT
And I want nothing to do with that gerbil worming stuff ......
LOL
Have an exalt for making me laugh!
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Post by General Gman on Mar 13, 2007 8:30:31 GMT
And I want nothing to do with that gerbil worming stuff ......LOL Have an exalt for making me laugh! me too.... just broke me hernia...... ;D |
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Post by m40man on Mar 13, 2007 8:42:08 GMT
Agreed. I think if we all adopt ecological debt as the metaphor for our environmental sustainability, clear-water thinking will become easier. I'm all for any measures which enhance our facundity. I hope I've made a small impact in this respect.
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Post by General Gman on Mar 13, 2007 9:40:20 GMT
more impact if you could spell Fecundity..... ;D
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Post by billywhizz on Mar 13, 2007 9:40:39 GMT
There was a prog on the tel about this GW thinghy,
and most of the weather historians cleary showed that carbon dioxide IS NOT the cause of the earths warmings, and in fact, the Earth has a history of warming and cooling , and it is when the C02 levels drop that the temperature actually rises, so some time soon in the next few hundred years, yes the earth will increase in temp, then cool again as co2 levels start to pick up again,
It was a fasinating program...
PS
we could all do our bit of course>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
stop all runs and take public transport instead, I think not ;D
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Post by Welsh Ade on Mar 13, 2007 9:41:49 GMT
Wow Martin Had to look up that word "Facundity" being mere welsh here not used to proper english.
For those that want to know
noun
Vivid, effective, or persuasive communication in speech or artistic performance: articulacy, articulateness, eloquence, eloquentness, expression, expressiveness, expressivity.
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Post by Andy-Red-Divi on Mar 13, 2007 9:51:08 GMT
Its all just another way for the governments of the world to shaft and screw their citizens for even more money.
Whats giving your money to a company that says they are planting trees in Honduras or somewhere on your behalf? How the heck do you check up on this? Fly out there just to see how your saplings are doing? It's a great scam! How many people are going to actually go and see 'their' trees? I bet they dont even exist, the cash has gone to fund some scammers drug habit!
Andy
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Post by beeblemaster on Mar 13, 2007 9:56:40 GMT
Indeed Andy. I just ordered a collection and delivery using ParcelForce and on the order I had the option to donate money for them to reduce their Carbon Footprint  |
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Post by m40man on Mar 13, 2007 10:07:05 GMT
more impact if you could spell Fecundity..... ;D ........... you might have an inclination towards fecundity  . But I meant facundity. I'm glad our eloquent Welsh friend understands me  . |
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Post by General Gman on Mar 13, 2007 10:14:47 GMT
bugger. But..... eloquent and welsh.... oxymoron, surely ? |
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Post by teffort on Mar 13, 2007 10:24:29 GMT
Indeed Andy. I just ordered a collection and delivery using ParcelForce and on the order I had the option to donate money for them to reduce their Carbon Footprint That would be a smaller pair of boots for the postman then? |
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Post by teffort on Mar 13, 2007 10:27:47 GMT
Wow Martin Had to look up that word "Facundity" being mere welsh here not used to proper english. For those that want to know noun Vivid, effective, or persuasive communication in speech or artistic performance: articulacy, articulateness, eloquence, eloquentness, expression, expressiveness, expressivity. Fecundity is much more fun though... |
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Post by Andy-Red-Divi on Mar 13, 2007 12:21:10 GMT
I blame the cows. all this methane production must be having some effect on the atmosphere?
Would make the vegies happy, but then eating more vegetables would make us fart more and hence be just as bad as the cows!
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Post by m40man on Mar 13, 2007 12:25:29 GMT
I blame the cows. all this methane production must be having some effect on the atmosphere? Would make the vegies happy, but then eating more vegetables would make us fart more and hence be just as bad as the cows! .... you must have watched that same program that Billywhizz mentioned. I saw it too. Cows produce collosal amounts of methane (from both ends!) Maybe billywhizz can remember the stats?? Meat is murder. Kill the cows. |
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Post by Andy-Red-Divi on Mar 13, 2007 12:30:28 GMT
Now where would you get the milk for your overpriced organic breakfast cereal then?
Andy
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Post by 2old2boogie on Mar 13, 2007 12:35:23 GMT
Now where would you get the milk for your overpriced organic breakfast cereal then?
Soya beans?
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Post by m40man on Mar 13, 2007 12:36:42 GMT
Now where would you get the milk for your overpriced organic breakfast cereal then? Andy ?? That unnatural homolgated product we force-feed our young, even though the human digestive system finds it a poor nutrient?? ......... anyway, power-execs like me don't have time for breakfast. We brunch. |
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Post by m40man on Mar 13, 2007 12:39:32 GMT
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Post by General Gman on Mar 13, 2007 14:40:06 GMT
Don't encourage Apricot with talk of taking cows out - he's bad enough now, even knowing that bestiality is frowned upon.... ;D |
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Post by welshy on Mar 13, 2007 15:47:07 GMT
Dave, did you know that you mentioned "Carbon Footprint" 4 times in your original post. Just thought I'd mention it. Oops......
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Post by CD on Mar 13, 2007 16:08:57 GMT
What's totally daft is USA had 15 years of government research that proved they could grow enough oily aquatic algae to meet all of their oil fuel needs on a small precentage of their desert lands in the South West USA. The Aquatic Species Program (I think it was called) would have cost in 1999 $100 Billion, but would have replaced 100% of their USA's petroleum. The algae grow in shallow ponds and are about 50% oils. The oils can be used as... oil ( :-) ) and the green sludge burned in power stations. the ash goes back into the ponds and the whole lot is 100% renewable, for ever and ever.
Wow $100,000,000,000 that's a lot of money. I wonder what the Iraq war has cost to date in a gormless attempt to bully the locals into coughing up more oil for the USA.
Global warming may or may not be a manmade issue, but petroleum is already running out and when it does it will dry up suddenly. Then what do we do?
Is USA resurrecting the Aquatic Species Program? "Go figure" as they say over there.
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Post by knight on Mar 13, 2007 19:19:01 GMT
The Iraq war has cost the US of A $408,014,779,508. But that was three minutes ago and it's gone up several thousand dollars since then.  |
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Post by CD on Mar 13, 2007 20:25:42 GMT
Until the Gulf War it was cheaper to dig our oil out of the ground and throw it into the sky. Now its most obviously not cheaper and the US know it. Hopefully they will resurrect the program but it will take time. Its a sort of agriculture with all the problems that suffers (weeds, plant disease, nutition, etc). But none of it can't be solved by research & development.
There's a snag, the algal oil is much like diesel fuel and isn't cheap to convert to petrol. The future is probably green diesel powered.
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Post by Andy-Red-Divi on Mar 13, 2007 22:08:52 GMT
sounds like snot to me!
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Post by werner1 on Mar 13, 2007 22:30:07 GMT
Nice topic
Print page ;D
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. But I meant facundity. I'm glad our eloquent Welsh friend understands me 
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