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Published on Friday, 26 September 2008 12:46 | | 
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Green guru, Donnachadh McCarthy, has come up with an original way of helping us all to slash our household bills and carbon footprint at the same time, writes Julia Stephenson
He has set up National Carbon Footprint Day http://www.nationalcarbonfootprintday.org on October 2, to encourage us to take a pledge to measure our carbon footprint, which will then be measured again the following year to see how people have become more 'green'.
Published on Wednesday, 24 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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David Carr, successful journalist and happy family man, spent years sucking a glass crack pipe, tweaking the curtains and believing the police were God's secret emissaries. His fresh and insightful account of his drug-fuelled past is striking in its simplicity and originality
Published on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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As the world financial system suffers its greatest shock since the 1929 Wall Street Crash, it's a good time to revisit Fritz Schumacher's classic essay on Buddhist Economics
'Right Livelihood is one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics...'
See also on This Way Up:
The Money Bubble and the Coming Crash
America's House Price Time-Bomb
Published on Monday, 22 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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It was all going so well but, as is often the case in life, there are gremlins in the machine.
It's hardly surprising that something as brutally large and complex as the LHC would be flawless, and so it has come to pass that the stuff of magic has been brought crashing down to earth by a very simple human failing - a wiring fault.
Still not to worry - they will fix this and results should be available about two months later than anticipated last week, but probably still to the original schedule.
Published on Sunday, 21 September 2008 19:00 | |
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And for Hospital Laughs go to Funny Stuff!
Published on Friday, 19 September 2008 19:00 | |
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My partner’s keen for us to start a family. What’s holding me back is that she can’t seem to stop shopping.
We have a joint bank account and although I have a reasonably well-paid job in the city (for the time being at least), we struggle to pay the bills at the end of the month because she’s spent a fortune on clothes, botox or ‘accessories’. Whenever I try to raise the issue of her overspending she flares up and accuses me of not loving her any more or of being tight. She says she wants to be a stay at home mum. I’m the main breadwinner, but I dread to think what will happen if we have one less income and one more mouth to feed.
Published on Friday, 19 September 2008 06:00 | | |
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Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change.
The media have given her family the
full soap opera treatment, but perhaps they should focus instead on her
environmental record which is truly alarming. 'We need to drill, drill,
drill,' she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the
forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).