Saturday 26 July 2014

Why should carrots conform to shallow beauty standards


If the carrots you're eating these days, all look toned to perfection right down their tapered bodies to their snappy thin points, then you've probably helped to create a lot of waste.

These days with looks weighing in heavily as the largest part of a product's (or indeed a person's) selling power there is no end to our discriminatory decision making based on whether something conforms to totally cosmetic standards or not.

Ever hear the old saying - Beauty doesn't flavour the stew?
Ok, I admit I just made that up but you get the point. French supermarket chain Intermarche have decided "enough is enough"

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Monday 21 July 2014

How one tree could be your orchard

Yes indeed, how one tree can give you an orchard. Read about the tree of forty fruits. The artist describes it as tree sculpting, we say it's practical and convenient. What do you think?

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Tuesday 15 July 2014

Applegreen customers and staff play second quarter blinder.


It's that time of year again when the Applegreen Charitable Fund hand over the fund's quarterly contribution plus the fruits of a myriad of sponsored site events, collections boxes and individual staff efforts  to their chosen Charity Partners, Crumlin's Children Hospital and Anam Cara. And what a quarter it's been. Very well done to all.

Crumlin has received €19,763.55, with an additional €8,183.72 from Site Events and Collection Boxes, in total €27,947.27. Anam Cara has recieved €19,763.55 , with an additional €8,015.87 from Site Events and Collection Boxes, in total €27,779.42. 

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Sunday 13 July 2014

These German ladies don't believe in covering things up.

   These two ladies are responsible for opening Original Unverpackt the first no packaging supermarket in Berlin. Imagine it - you come home from shopping and you have no packaging waste. You've bought only the quantity you really needed and there's no more need to buy a pig in a poke. What you see is what you get. So far the story is that business is excellent with the store clocking up twice the expected footfall but also noting that customers are spending half as much as they had projected. I can see the shopping list now - 8 potatoes, 3 onions, 4 portions of beans (from the bean dispenser), drop of milk for the breakfast, 6 ladles of crisps and 12 wine gums.

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Wednesday 9 July 2014

Ewe will love these bivouacs.

via The Scout Association
And all that time you thought that neighbouring farmer was sheep farming he was really running a camp-site without planning permission. Ewe were being fooled!

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Saturday 5 July 2014

Petrogas getting conveniently closer to every Irish motorist.

Petrogas Global, plans to build six new service areas in a €30m investment by the end of next year. The new stations  will  create 360 permanent jobs, 60 full time staff per station and 250 construction jobs during the building period.. 

The M11 Wicklow service area is the first of the new  sites  with additional sites in Birdhill, Co Tipperary, Swords, Co Dublin, Lemybrien, Co Waterford already in construction. 
The new  super service stations  are all located on major roads and feature a convenience store, car and truck pumps, electric car charge points, Burger King, Subway, 
Applegreen's own 'Bakewell Kitchen' cafe, Costa Coffee, children's play areas and toilets. Four service stations are also set to be opened north of the border creating a further 200 jobs.
Perogas CEO Bob Etchingham and chief operating officer Joe Barrett

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