For a no more than few pence more than you are paing at the moment, you could be gretting your energy from wind power … Ecotricity : http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/.

Check it out….

Comment: Npower also do green electricity - if you‘re already with them it takes 2 minutes to change over, doesn’t cost any more and there is no hassle of changing supplier - they've been doing this with Greenpeace since August 2001.

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Interesting :- I have been looking into this stuff a little bit more. Whilst the nPower Juice thing promises that 100% of your energy (from them) comes from renewable sources, and Ecotricity only states 10% … there is a catch!

I phoned Ecotricity to find out more:- basically what happens is that they guarantee that 10% of your energy will come from renewable sources (wind) in the first year, increasing by 10% each year - so after 5 years it will be 50%. Now although this still doesn't seem as good, if you take the Ecotricity as a whole, ALL of their customers are getting at least 10% of their energy from wind power. Whereas nPower, averaged out over their whole customer base, only supply about 3% renewable energy.

Also with no shareholders, profits at Ecotricity are pumped back into a continuous investment program into new turbines.

Either way, we should make the switch, whichever route. Which way, you choose.

Finally one thing that I was really impressed by is that when I phoned Ecotricity for more info, I got through to a person immediately - now that's what I call progress!!!

Windmall: "The colorful panels that look like books above the entrance of a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, are components in an electricity generator developed by Inaba Electric Work.

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The structure called ‘Surface of the wall windmill ecological curtain’ is made of 775 vertical windmills and is expected to produce 7,551 kilowatt-hours annually. Combined with solar panels set on the top of the structure, the energy collected will be used to power lighting in the mall building.

Via MDN News.

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(Via we make money not art.)

TomatoesI love this - such a fantastic idea - in a completely odd and random way of course!

From Metaefficient.com

This planter can used to tomatoes, other vegetables or even flowers from a small area.

Hang on decks, patios, porches, balconies, or even from a tree.

The manufacturer claims feeding and watering is easy: you pour water or nutrients into the top of the funnel.

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Web Site: Clean Air Gardening ($19.95)_

(Via An Artsy Fartsy Weblog.)

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Welcome to UltraLeds.co.uk: "A low energy LED MR16 led spotlight which is a direct replacement for MR16 Halogen lamps.

48 Leds (Custom Designed) gives the you the first direct replacement bulb at a similar brightness to Halogen bulbs.

This Replacement Led bulb benefits from longer life and cost savings.

CE Approved.

This lamp is made up of 48 LEDs and lamp life of around 50,000 hours."

Short glossary of common internet shorthands.

  • IRL - In Real Life
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  • IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
  • IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
  • LOL - Laughs Out Loud
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  • AFAIK - As Far As I Know
  • FWIW - For What Its Worth
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And tons more HERE

Ok … blogs allow you to put all sorts of stuff in your stories and comments but you may have to get your hands dirty with a little bit of HTML… don‘t worry it’s really easy!

OK first up the basics … HTML consists of tags that is something like ; each tag has a partner ( in the last case ). There are a few exceptions but we'll come to that later.

In order to format some text you have to enclose your text with tags so if I want bold text, I use: Here is some bold text - this will come out like this: Here is some bold text

It is exactly the same for italic text but using i instead of b. You can nest tags eg:

Here is some bold italic text

Note that the i tags are BOTH inside the b tags; they can be either way round but they need to be matched.

Some exceptions:

  • - new paragraph


  • - line break
  • - horizontal rule

Each of these doesn't need an end tag (although it is good practice and will increasingly be required to use an end tag with

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Hyperlinks: These are formed by using the tag, with it's end tag - the only difference is that the URL that you want to link to goes inside the tag - eg:

There are a couple of things it is worth mentioning here: href is the link, this needs to start with http:// if the browser is to understand it as a link external to the site. Also if you want to open a new window with the link use “target” eg: … "_blank" means a new window.

USB - the defacto standard for low-power low-speed computer peripherals. But due to it's ability to supply a modest amount of power very simply, it has begun to spawn a whole array of wierd (and some not so wonderful) items. read on …

now that's just silly! on the other hand the gadget freak in me is rather inspired by the ease with which you can actually make it!

On the other hand this is really useful, honest

And a few more

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