 in our homes goes directly back into the environment?
Oh and by the way Green Laundry detergents are WORTH IT! I like Method free and clear detergent, my favorite part is no measuring, you just squirt it in!!
From Calvin and Hobbes "Weirdos from another planet"
We all know that teaching our kids to be polite and respect other people is pretty important.
What about teaching our kids to respect the earth, how many parents make this a priority?
We are packing so much into our days that we barely have enough time for homework, let alone a new subject. I think doing 1 thing a month to show our kids that the Earth is important is a goal that we can all achieve. We really don’t want our kids to look back at us and say WTF were they thinking? It is their future that we’re messing with! Do you think they want to be dealing with our trash or severe weather (due to climate change), that is only getting worse, in 50 years?
Make a point to recycle in front of them, let them see that this is just a part of life. Talk to them about why it’s important to recycle.
Take them to a farmers market, then have them help you prepare a meal with the things you bought. Start a clear understanding of where food comes from early.
Have them check out this Climate Kids website that is put on by NASA or the climate change kids site by the EPA.
Take them to a beach or park to clean up litter, have them invite some friends and buy them some yummy food afterward.
Have them check out EEK! Another great website.
Chances are they are more knowledgeable about the environment than you anyway….
Grab them a documentary like the 11th hour, an Inconvenient truth or Food inc.
My 6 year old has been into Calvin and Hobbes comics lately. The other night I came across a great story. Calvin decided he and Hobbes were going to Mars, because the Earth is too polluted. Wow, even Calvin and Hobbes (in 1990) are hip to the fact that the earth is in trouble.
Check out Climate Mama, she is hosting the Green Mom’s carnival to get people moving on 10-10-10 and celebrate climate solutions!Yeah, you can be happy of this! This look a lot better than the last forum. Only problem however is : its slow. Takes 5-10 more seconds to load each pages, which gets anoying quite fast. Hope it won't be like that forever!
Unfortunately I'm afraid that as long as I won't find anyone else to host a database for me it will be slow. Connections are fast -- it's the MySQL requests that are slow :-(.
At least it loads each time...
This is kickass! Keep up the good work!Our next Employee of the Year award is for those who have displayed true dedication to our Promise Based Culture. Sponsored by Bunzl, this category was created to thank and recognise our employees that deliver on our promise based culture.
Please join us in congratulating our winner Ricky Bennett who works on our Arriva Rail London contract.
Ricky was a Senior Supervisor running a single site operation for Transport for London, before joining Carlisle and becoming our Contract Manager for ARL. With this role Ricky had to embark on a major service transition where all operatives changed their roles, eight additional staff were TUPE’d over and the contract also required an additional ten positions to be covered with just three weeks’ notice. During this time, Ricky was also tasked with mobilising a trial service which was a great success, and on top of this, Ricky had to continue his day-to-day role of managing the contract.
What impresses us most about Ricky is that he still has an eye on the future, with a plan and objectives for himself. Well done Ricky, you have a bright future ahead of you!How many times do we compare ourselves to the ideal body type?
How many times do we attempt to style our hair the same way a specific celebrity does?
us, even to an extent of believing they are perfect?
anyone – from parents, to superheroes, friends, or teachers!
advertisements, movies, and other forms of promotional media.
determine our expectations and thoughts.
especially in terms of beauty and attractiveness – which really shouldn’t be the case!
entirely subjective, and it is subject to personal feelings and emotions.
know the serious consequences of self-hated, if accumulated over time.
Over the last 10 years, innovative digital services like iTunes, Spotify and Beatport have drastically changed the way we share, purchase and consume music. As the music industry business models and formats continue to evolve, the one thing we can be sure of is that our insatiable desire for flexibility and freedom in our consumption will have to remain at the very core.
Welcome to the listening revolution.
It's 2023 and it's every track for itself. There are no longer rules or restrictions to how we listen, curate and discover music and it's we, the consumers, who have demanded this change — not the labels or artists. They have simply had to keep up with the pace and reshape their economic models around our limitless online lifestyles and the innovative digital services that are pushing things forward. Offline no longer exists so our lives don't need to be backed up on discs or hard drives anymore.
With a demise of more than 50m album sales per year since 2002, the album will soon be a wasted art, replaced by hashtags and search terms defined by our on-the-go listening habits and linking together a collection of otherwise unconnected singles.
The charts are wildly unpredictable – your position influenced by a cult series' season finale, a video that's gone viral, a trending topic or a one-man campaign. The shelf life of the No 1 might not even last the week it lands the top spot. Artists have had to adjust their strategy, no longer able to sit back and rely on their past successes.
This fast-paced, disposable behaviour is not shallow; it's something to be celebrated. The future is liberated: it's fun and the top spot is anyone's game. The anti-X Factor campaign in 2009 saw Rage Against The Machine take the Christmas No 1 spot with their 1992 single Killing In The Name Of. More recently, The Wizard Of Oz's Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead reached No 2 in the charts the week of Thatcher's death – purely powered by the essence of social media and the voice of the people.
The walls of our consumption have been knocked down and All That She Wants by Ace of Base stands as much chance as reaching number one as an artist with a £3m traditional marketing campaign. This is the future: it's open season and what the people want, the people get. There is no longer personal loyalty to traditional genres. Your music tastes won't govern what you wear or the principles you live your life by. We are all music fans and we are free to change our minds after the first listen. It's music consumption without the commitment.
Ownership is over. We have been given free access to music's extensive back catalogue so in the future; in a world where everyone has access to everything, the curation of our playlists will be our only point of difference.
The social experience of consuming music has long evolved from listening to an owned album complete with artwork, music video and sleeve notes to being an integrated and "free" part of our online social media consumption. The record player is now mobile – it takes up no space and at the click of a button it can disappear or triple in size. We are all DJs of our own personal radio stations and the request-line has become the social feed of friends and followers. We will still sit together, music will still connect with our souls and lyrics will still change our lives; only our seats can be anywhere in the world.
But this everything on-demand experience can't come for free. And we shouldn't expect it to. Which is why, in the future, discovery and consumption need to unite. A place where the options are unconfined and the artist still gets paid is the only place where we can live in harmony without sacrificing quality, talent or integrity. Without this balance, the whole thing comes undone. Not only for labels and artists, but for the producers, engineers and songwriters too – not to mention the fans. The socially linked subscription based model is the only safe and unrestricted place to enjoy and protect our most powerful cultural asset: music.
Cameron Farrelly is partner at creative agency pd3. Check out pd3's infographic on the last decade of music, before and after iTunes and follow them on Twitter @pd3l?)At certain times, a loan may be essential. If an emergency happens and you need quick cash, for example, it may be a solution. Precisely for this reason, there are also those who seek to take advantage of this situation.
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