Notebook > Jan 2008

B&Q to Stop Selling Patio Heaters - 21 Jan 08

via Eco-Worrier

The Financial Times reports that everyone’s favourite bank-holiday destination (or is that just in Northern Ireland?), B&Q is to stop selling patio heaters as they are “environmentally unsound”.

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A Breath of Fresh (MacBook) Air? - 16 Jan 08

Browsing through my subscribed news feeds, its not often that the same subject crops up in both my “green” category and my techie/geek one, but today is one of those rare occasions. Its seems that everyone wants to talk about Apple’s newly announced MacBook Air, whether it be from a technology stand-point or with a view to its eco-friendly credentials, which make it quite probably the greenest Apple yet.

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The Landfill Prize - 10 Jan 08

Did you receive something completely pointless for Christmas that’s a complete waste of the resources that went into making it? Maybe you’ve bought something useless yourself, in a moment of madness. Either way you can know make your feelings known by nominating the offending item(s) for The Landfill Prize.

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New Job Eve - 06 Jan 08

Tomorrow will be the first day of my new job. Until now, its seemed like I’ve just been on an extended Christmas leave from my previous job, but reality is sinking in.

As I sit here, dosed with the cold that Ben picked up over Christmas, I’m thinking of all the little things that you take for granted in a job you know, but which, for now, I simply don’t know about my new role. Its not that I’m having second thoughts about the move, I’m certain that its right for me. Rather, its the realisation that for the first time in 11 years, I’m going to be the new guy.

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