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There’s nothing quite like an outdoor gig is there? Mp3s, CDs and vinyl is all very well but seeing your favourite band in public is, after all, the real thing. When it comes to a really big open air musical extravaganza for this year your thoughts will probably turn to Virgin’s very own V Festival [...]

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Remember when every car ad had the 0 – 60mph speed proudly emblazoned on it? It was a useless figure then and even more so now. Thankfully, car ads are getting a bit more intelligent and are now being aimed at the savvier buyer. Recently, in response to environmental and cost concerns; miles per gallon [...]

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A slice of toast smothered in butter and honey is not only delicious but potentially good for your health, although maybe not with lashings of butter on it (see i am full of healthy eating facts). A connection between honey and medicine for most us is a lozenge that your granny carries in her purse, [...]

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If you are planning a trip to Florida and are maybe thinking of visiting all the popular Theme parks with the little ones, why not try and get further afield with Miami Car Hire, for car rental Florida. There all loads of great places to visit close by. One place I would love to visit [...]

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People love to get away from home, immerse themselves in a temporary, vibrant community, and get lost in the music or the stage shows or the food found at summertime festivals. And while all this merriment can be a fabulous way to escape, the planet largely bears the brunt of festivals ills: Too much garbage [...]

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Born from the complex minds of ambitious often difficult men the new dawn of aviation heralds an age of austerity; dominated by the new breed of robber barons, or conceptual geniuses, all depends on the observers, social, political, and environmental focus. There is no doubt that since, though not directly correlated to; Lockerbie and the [...]

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On March 27 at 8:30 p.m. local time, 4000 cities in 125 countries voluntarily dimmed the lights demonstrating the ultimate show of global unity in the fight against climate change. Individuals, businesses, and governments came together to support WWF?s fourth year of encouraging an hour of lights-out and sending a powerful message that shined bright [...]

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Nick Lowe, of Johnsonville, New Zealand, pulls on bike shorts and a t-shirt when he climbs on to pedal away through the city. But as soon as he hits the open road, a “change of clothes” is on the agenda. The t-shirt graces Lowe’s handlebars. The bike shorts he carefully arranges on the saddle so that the chamois seat pad still performs as point of contact. “The majority of the public…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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One of the problems with the oil (kerogen) in oil shale is that it is not mature enough (i.e. close enough to being an oil) that it will easily flow through the rock. In earlier parts of this particular theme, I have written about mining the rock and then heating it in retorts as a [...]

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In the resource depletion soup, one ingredient looms large ? social equity. Equality is a function of population, social status aspirations and resources. With a small population, everyone can have reasonable equality. With unlimited resources, the same (although the amplitude generated by law of large numbers will exert outsized social pull from the top). But [...]

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