Archive for April, 2011
There’s no time to lose meeting the energy challenge
April 27th, 2011 by Richard Lord
“Meet the energy challenge now” is made by Grundfos
Rock to Roque bike ride on Sunday 29 May 2011
April 26th, 2011 by Events
This year’s Rock to Rocque bicycle ride on 29 May in aid of Les Bourgs Hospice will begin at three official start points. The bike ride will begin at 9 am at North Beach, St Peter Port; 10 am at Rocquaine; and 11 am at Grandes Rocque.
(click on image to download Rock to Rocque bike ride entry form as a PDF file to your computer)
Guernsey Bicycle Group organises Guernsey Bike-a-thon 2011 in aid of Fight for Sight
April 25th, 2011 by Guernsey Bicycle Group
As part of Bike Week 2011 from 18 to 26 June the Guernsey Bicycle Group is launching a fund raising event in aid of the charity Fight for Sight.
Up to 25 sponsored teams will take part in a “Bike-a-thon” at the cycle track at Delancey Park from 2 pm to 5 pm on Saturday 18 June 2011.
(click on logo to download Guernsey Bike-A-Thon poster as PDF file to your computer)
A host of talent to participate in The inaugural Guernsey Literary Festival from 12 to 15 May 2011
April 25th, 2011 by Guernsey Literary Festival
Richard Fleming writes “The Guernsey Literary Festival takes place between 12 and 15 May and promises to be an exciting event, offering a wide choice of entertaining, amusing and thought-provoking activities that will appeal to both young and old alike.
“A host of talent will be arriving on our shores to offer festival-goers a heady mixture of literary talks, poetry readings, panel discussions, writing and publishing workshops, story-telling sessions, folklore, literary based film, exhibitions and even a blood-curdling Murder Mystery evening in the atmospheric surroundings of Guernsey’s oldest Library.
Environmental impact of electric vehicle batteries
April 24th, 2011 by Norwegian University of Science and Technology
One of the most important decisions facing designers of plug-in electric or hybrid vehicles is related to battery choice.
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have used a life cycle analysis to examine three vehicle battery types to determine which does the best job of powering the vehicle while causing the least amount of environmental impact during its production.
Follow the spice trail on Guernsey’s Liberation Day
April 24th, 2011 by Sarah Griffith
On 9 May 2011 from midday to 5 pm food will be sold in a marquee across the road from the Albion/ Town Church, St Peter Port in aid of Bridge2Haiti and Bridge2SriLanka.
ABN.Amro (Guernsey) Ltd. have funded the marquee and their staff will help serve the food.
(click on the image to download the PDF flyer to your computer)
We will be serving delicious pork snorkie Rolls – Spit Roast Pig from Forest Stores; burgers with meat from Meadow Court Farm; Kebabs made by Tony Leck of The Pavillion and Ali de La Mare of The Captain’s. There will be some spicy sauces to conjure up the tastes of both Haiti and Sri Lanka.
Also on sale will be our handmade fabric bags and silver jewellery too with very special Liberation Day offers.
Home – a film about planet Earth
April 24th, 2011 by Richard Lord
I presume the free showing of this cinematic masterpiece on Youtube is made possible by the corporate sponsorship shown in the first minute of the film.
A Dutch company makes functional products from waste
April 23rd, 2011 by We Beat the Mountain
We Beat The Mountain is a young, innovative organisation that aims to reduce the worldwide trash and waste mountain.
In order to reach this goal, We Beat The Mountain and her community create, develop and produce cool functional products made from recycled waste and trash.
We Beat The Mountain started from three emotions: anger, frustration and pure astonishment.
In September 2009, Han Hendriks, founder of We Beat The Mountain, had to throw away a leisure suitcase (of a good and well-known brand) for the third time in his life, because the suitcase was broken. This frustrated him. While standing alongside the luggage belt at the airport, he realized how ugly suitcases actually are, and also how badly they are produced. Besides, the materials used to produce suitcases are very bad for the environment.
When Han Hendriks got more into this, he was shocked about how little products are made from recycled materials. This experience added up to Han’s plans to use his entrepreneurial qualities for a purpose that would make the world a little bit better. We Beat The Mountain is the organization that grew from there on.
In September 2010, the First We Beat The Mountain products will be available: a laptop sleeve (13, 15 and 17 inch), an iPad sleeve and a smartphone case.
In 2011, a Flex Worker’s Trolley (a handy suitcase to support Flexible Working/The New Way of Working) and a leisure suitcase will be added to this product range.
We Beat The Mountain believes that people will always keep consuming. We do not believe in efforts trying to make people consume less. People love to shop, buy and spend money. For that reason, we want to offer alternative ‘good’ products to be consumed, which enable people to buy a responsible product. We Beat The Mountain products are made from trash, therefore people who buy these products directly help to reduce the trash mountain. In addition, We Beat The Mountain products are designed according to Cradle to Cradle principles. Our products are made from pure materials, and are designed in such a way that the products can be taken apart, to ensure that recycling of all product parts is possible when the product becomes out of use. We Beat The Mountain facilitates the return logistics to make sure our products do not end up on the trash mountain.
We Beat The Mountain products are designed by our partner FLEX/the INNOVATION LAB. This professional product design agency designed the series of laptop sleeves in close cooperation with our own team. They also take care of the outsourcing of production of the sleeves.
By turning trash into products, we do not only clean up the world bit by bit, we also increase the value of trash. We Beat The Mountain products are taken back after use, to take them apart and reuse all parts of the products. The products are designed in such a way to enable this recycling process.
For more information visit we beat the mountain on Facebook.
Guernsey Tomorrow moves towards new land use strategy
April 22nd, 2011 by Strategic Land Planning Group
(click image to download Guernsey Tomorrow Summary Report from the States of Guernsey Strategic Land Planning Group)
In October last year the States of Guernsey considered a States Report setting out broad options for the future land planning of the Island.
The options in the report were developed to encompass the wide range of views, opinions and ideas that were contributed by people through the ‘Guernsey Tomorrow‘ initiative.
The options described different ways that the Island could accommodate its development requirements over the next 10 to 20 years.
Guernsey recycling during Easter Bank Holiday weekend
April 22nd, 2011 by States of Guernsey Public Services Department
(click on the image to go to the Public Services Department recycling website)
STAFF from States Works and Mayside Recycling will be emptying bring banks as normal throughout the Bank Holiday weekend, including Sunday, to help cope with any ‘eggstra’ Easter packaging.
Public Services’ recycling collectors will be on an ‘egg hunt’ at the bring bank sites around the island for the ‘eggstra’ packaging left over from Easter eggs that will have been eaten on the Sunday morning (or maybe even before then) – all the cardboard and tinfoil packaging can be recycled along with any plastic marked with a triangle and a number 1, 2, 5 or 6.
Older plastic may have the letters for plastic No. 1 PET or PETE or for plastic No. 2 HDPE or PE.
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