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 Happytofita
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Hey,
Once again, a great piece of Alan's!
Happytofita, I'd still be thinking as you do if I hadn't watched 'The day the Earth stood still' the other day. Although it's a movie, it makes one ponder over the matter.
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:43 am How green are you? |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:51 am How green are you? |
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Hai Alen,
It is excellant, verymuch informative. I am quite sure that those who are reading this essay will do their part for the nature, though not planted a new sapling certainly will abstain from cutting or damaging another plant.
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Dec 16, 2008 13:26 pm How Green are you? |
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This was another great piece by Alan - I particularly enjoyed the reference to "twitching" with excitement when a lost or rare bird is seen.
An American Robin would certainly be a rare bird in the UK, but I prefer the classic English ones.
I look forward to the next newsletter Alan.
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Happytofita
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| #8 (permalink) Tue Dec 16, 2008 15:36 pm How green are you? |
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Well Tortsten what can I say, you are the best, I am also green, I am trying to change people's mind about our planet, but it seems too difficult a task for anyone, I am a techer and every year I am doing some recycling of paper with my students. They sure contribute with that, but they don't care about throwing garbage where it doesn't belong, I mean they do something because someonbe tells them to, in fact, they do it only if someone is watching over them, otherwise they wil only ignore whatever they were told before, it seems that this society will do something only if there is a punishn¡ment for not doing so. have you experienced somtehing lik that ever?. what do you think about it?.
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| #10 (permalink) Tue Dec 16, 2008 16:08 pm How green are you? |
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| Thanks for the article. Anyway, most of the English words are borrowed from French. |
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| #11 (permalink) Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:31 am How green are you? |
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Nice.. It was impressive..
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| #12 (permalink) Wed Dec 17, 2008 14:10 pm How green are you? |
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Dear alan..
I think I am green enough.
I don't like to litter, and I really hate someone who throw the rubbish anywhere.
the point of someone who litter is very low even though she or he is pretty or handsome.
I don't use motorbike, I prefer to walk or using public vehicles for going to such a far place.
I try to limit the using paper, I always used the used paper with different side for printing material for my student.
that's all
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| #13 (permalink) Wed Dec 17, 2008 20:13 pm How green are you? |
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Hi Christopher Robin,
So glad you liked my newsletter. I see you live in Devon, which is my favourite county.
Best wishes,
Alan
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| #14 (permalink) Thu Dec 18, 2008 16:11 pm How green are you? |
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Hi the one who likes Robin,
I like it , green is a nice colour. what i really want is to have and be capable to keep a green heart even with red blood circulating in. |
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| #15 (permalink) Fri Dec 19, 2008 16:10 pm How green are you? |
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Living green may sound like setting limits to one's life. Let me tell you that living green may also help you to achieve your dreams 
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A couple spent three months collecting and recycling litter to pay for their honeymoon flights.
John and Ann Till, from Petersfield, in Hampshire, took thousands of cans and bottles to a recycling centre at a nearby Tesco supermarket.
For every four recycled items, they earned a reward point which was then converted into BA air miles.
They amassed 36,000 miles, which they used to fly back in business class from their US honeymoon.
Enough rubbish
The Tills came up with the idea while buying petrol at Tesco in Havant, where an automated recycling unit that gives loyalty-card points had been installed for a trial period.
They had enough money for a Queen Mary 2 cruise to New York but could not afford the flights home, so the couple started scouring the streets of their home town for rubbish, clocking up the miles for their dream honeymoon.
Mr Till, 31, a railways communications manager, said: "We wanted to make our honeymoon special and were trying to think of ways to raise money for it.
"I saw on the machine that you got a Tesco Clubcard point for every four items you put in. For every 250 points you got 600 British Airways miles.
"We worked out that it would be possible to turn rubbish into our flights - as long as we had enough."
Mr Till said they had collected almost every night for three months during spring.
They had rarely been off-duty, he said, even taking the long route home after a night in the pub.
Sometimes we were posting 600 items a time into the machine
Ann Till
"At the very beginning, we were concerned it would not be achievable, but then we saw the amount of rubbish out there," said Mr Till.
"It's not to say the pavements were awash with litter, it was when we looked over walls and in the undergrowth.
"There was enough rubbish out there to fly us to the moon and back."
The couple spent hours "force feeding" the machine and maximised their point-earning potential by cutting cans in half and claiming other people's recycling leftovers.
Mrs Till, 24, a merchant navy navigation officer, said: "Sometimes we were posting 600 items a time into the machine. We would be there for hours putting stuff through the slot.
Litter louts
"I remember it was snowing one evening and it was freezing cold and there we were chucking stuff into the machine."
They reached their air miles goal in May, which covered the bulk of their £3,000 business class flights.
We have got a set of environmental targets and it sounds as though the Tills were almost hitting those single handedly
Tesco spokesman
They married in August, then sailed to New York on the Queen Mary 2 and travelled to Denver, Colorado and Nashville, Tennessee, before flying home from Atlanta.
Their recycling feat came to light after they e-mailed a honeymoon picture to their local paper - the Petersfield Post - as part of its Read Around The World competition.
"While it was nice to get the rubbish for the good cause, it was disappointing to see there are clearly a lot of litter louts in our town," said Mr Till.
"But it did raise a smile when we were in business class on the flight back to Gatwick to think that the litter louts of Petersfield had paid for the pleasure."
Tesco spokesman David Nieberg said the automated recycling machines were being trialled in a few of the larger UK stores.
"We support all our customers who wish to recycle," he said. "We have got a set of environmental targets and it sounds as though the Tills were almost hitting those single-handedly.
"If it helped them go on honeymoon even better - we congratulate them on that." |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7654254.stm |
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