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Ohh... juicy contreversy! My friend has a very different take, which I figured I'd post to see which of us is righ? ahem... to get other people's opinions on. (Canadian translations: "IGA" is a supermarket similar to Morrisons, while "Capers" and "Whole Foods" are mid-s...

A friend of mine just sent me and email asking about the relationship between food costs and oil costs. This was my take: ::::::::::::::::::::::::: In the UK, at least, the supermarket chains pressure the rest of the food industry. They have the power to dictate whatever terms they want to the suppl...

Some background from an oceanographer friend of mine who's studying the North Pacific analog of NAO. He says: We don't really know how to predict it yet, or even what causes it, really. Well, we have some ideas... Take a look at the NAO index on this page: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/portal/data...

This random thought occurred to me the other day: what percentage of the drinking water consumed in large cities comes from bottled water (i.e. Evian, Vittel, water coolers, etc...)? Presumably it's all currently trucked in from plants outside the big cities?if a petrol shortaged cut off such delive...

I'd much prefer the week long course but could do either. If it's the same price, it seems a bit silly to chose the shorter course, but I'm luckly enough to be less bound by real-life than others... Re: CAT vs somewhere else/homebrew: I'm not sure we'd get around to it; I'd rather pay a bit a actual...

Patrick, Yeah, lots of stuff burns. The problems come when you have lots of people who start burning whatever they can find: 1) Few will be experienced with fires and not everyone will be careful, and 2) where there's a lot of fires there'll be a lot of smoke, leading to both short-term, local air q...

Hi Joe, I think we discussed this at the conference on Tuesday; I'd definitely be interested.

I was thinking that we might be able to set up some sort of "green registry" on the PowerSwitch site. This would be a place where anyone interested in joining a project could post details of what they're looking for, where it could be located and what skills they had to offer. Does this so...

Yeah, I'll be going to this.

I've been looking for a way into LSE for a while now; gotta learn to talk to economists

I think "The Corporation" talks about this as the new form of marketing... apparently companies are actually paying people to talk loudly about how good CD X is, etc. I've yet to spot anything I though was an actual case, though...

This thread is for continuing the discussion which began in the economy and money workshop at the October 11th Conference in London. Perhaps someone could start by providing a summary of what was discussed, so that those who went to other workshops or weren't able to attend the conference will feel...

This thread is for continuing the discussion which began in the food workshop at the October 11th Conference in London. Perhaps someone could start by providing a summary of what was discussed, so that those who went to other workshops or weren't able to attend the conference will feel able to part...

This thread is for continuing the discussion which began in the energy and climate change workshop at the October 11th Conference in London. Perhaps someone could start by providing a summary of what was discussed, so that those who went to other workshops or weren't able to attend the conference w...

This thread is for continuing the discussion which began in the transport workshop at the October 11th Conference in London. Perhaps someone could start by providing a summary of what was discussed, so that those who went to other workshops or weren't able to attend the conference will feel able to...