If you’re a bloke, and perhaps a little vain you would probably like to have a six pack. Now the problem is as with most things, no pain no gain. We have all been bombarded with different products from pills, to gadgets to work out routines all looking to make you “the consumer” waste your money and waste the resources to produce and ship that product probably all the way from China to your door…
Well guess what, don’t waste your money.. View the above video and get the lowdown on how to really get a six pack…That’s if you really want one.
The solution is not rocket science, simply eat less and do cardiovascular exercise…That’s it!
The Pope is set to visit Britain in September 2010 and the cost of trip is like to set back taxpayers a whopping £12 million. It is estimated that the total outlay for the four day stay could reach as much as £24 million, with the Catholic Church footing the remainder of the bill. The trip will be Benedict’s first official Papal visit to the UK and will comprise of both pastoral events and formal state business. Security will be stepped up, with the the visit set to spark outrage amongst protestors not only concerned with the gross overspend but the also because of the scandal surrounding child abuse within the Catholic Church and other controversial views.
With the number of malnourished people worldwide standing at just over 1.2 billion and increasing annually, a £12 million price tag for a four day visit seems obsurd, as the money could be put to much better uses. The charity Helen Keller International is working to reduce malnutrition in line with the Millenium development Goal which aims to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015. They’re attempting to achieve this via a variety of projects, one of which included the production of ‘self-sustaining food production gardens’ in countries across Asia, at a cost of just $9 (about £6) per garden. These gardens can provide food for whole families as well as creating a source of income. The £12 million being spent by the UK Government on the Pope’s visit could be used to create two million of these gardens and improve the lives of millions of people.
Can this huge sum of money really be justified when there are millions of people worldwide lacking even the basic tools for survival, not forgetting the fact the UK’s government has the largest deficit of all the G20 nations and is currently imposing tight public spending cuts which will doubtless effect a large proportion of its own population?
This is a tongue in cheek video about how the Advertising Industry works. We all should now how consumers are duped into a “consumer culture” where consuming is king and consumption will “make us happy”, but fewer people realise the lengths ad agency will go through to stay in business.
Blackwater Security Consulting (BSC) was formed in 2001, and based in Moyock, North Carolina. BSC is one of the private security firms employed during the Iraq War to guard officials and installations, train Iraq’s new Army and Police, and provide other support for Coalition Forces.[18]
Its primary public contract is from the U.S. State Department under the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Worldwide Personal Protective Services (WPPS) and WPPS II umbrella contracts, along with DynCorp International and Triple Canopy, Inc. for protective services in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Israel.[39][40] Blackwater’s responsibilities include the United States embassy in Iraq.[41]
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For many years my wife and I were buying mineral water as we preferred the taste and though it was better for you.
That was until we found out the environmental impact of a bottle of water, calculated in a Swedish study was 90 to 1,000 times compared to tap water.
This and the fact the new research suggested that tap water actually just as good as and in some cases better than mineral water. That is when you take into account things like arsenic and bacteria found in some mineral water.
So I decided to take the Woollyeyes bottle water test. Simply fill a bottle of your partners or friends favourite mineral water, place it in the fridge and serve one glass with chilled tap water and the other with mineral water.
Than simply ask your genie pig which one they prefer…
You will be amazed by the results.
My wife actually preferred the tap water from a regular London tap to Evian…
Sustainability has already evolved from activists/charity’s into the board room. This global tipping point was achieved a few years ago with more and more major corporations addressing this issue by implementing sustainability as part of a business strategy as more and more consumers demand a preference for buying from sustainable businesses.
In February, 2008 – Nearly 50 leading U.S. and European institutional investors managing over $1.75 trillion in assets released a climate change action plan at the United Nations that boosted investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies that require tougher scrutiny of carbon-intensive investments that may pose long-term financial risks. Additionally, European investors managing $6.5 trillion in assets supported the action plan “in principle.”
The action plan was announced at the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, hosted by Ceres and the United Nations Foundation, attended by more than 450 investor, financial and corporate leaders from around the world.
Already, most large international companies produce a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or sustainability annual report. While it is not the only indicator that should be used, many companies already declare their greenhouse gas emissions, with over 3000 of the largest corporations registering them with the Carbon Disclosure Project. However, there is a hole in the majority of these reports: most companies do not yet include scope 3 emissions or the emissions from meetings, events and business travel.
As travel and flying is such a large emitter of carbon, you can expect things to change in 2008. So if you are responsible for organizing events or meetings, expect to be asked to consider the environmental impact of your activities and to provide statistics about carbon emission levels, waste levels and resource utilization.
*Information provided by Sustainability Services from mci-group.com
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Michel Chossudovsky is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDEP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser.[3] Wikipedia overview
