Strange things happens in New Zealand. A German tourist has been crowned New Zealand’s champion rabbit-thrower [^] in Waitomo according to stuff.co.nz. Lisa Lutz managed to overthrow the Kiwis by tossing a dead rabbit into a trailer attached to a motobike; something seen across farms in New Zealand and Australia. Event organiser Barry Woods said that the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Environment’
Packaging Blunders
How could someone get this so very wrong? These bananas were seen recently in a UK supermarket. Can you imagine how much more this adds to the cost; and there is no reason to claim ”value-adding” like there is with peeled oranges. Over-packaging a product, especially as blatantly as this, should be a crime. Bananas have gone from [...]
A Green Christmas
Yes, I know that it is only October but people are starting to think about Christmas already. This f-bomb laden website offers some guidelines [^] for an environmentally friendly Christmas. The site was spurred on by the fact that an estimated $1b was spent on unwanted presents in 2007 in Australia, and £2.3b in the [...]
Oil Spill Comes Home
For some people it can be hard to visualise, or understand the spread of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. IfItWasMyHome helps to fix that, it shows current limits of the spill centered on a Google Map [^] anywhere in the world. Seeing that the spill has spread from Hamilton to Wangaratta certainly came [...]