Author: tyfairclough
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Mentoring & help towards social enterprise
Key Fund Yorkshire has offered to provide AVIF with one free delegate entry to the FOOTSEY 100 event, York Racecourse, October 18 2007, and A GRANT OF £200. Here I will be given the unique opportunity to attend one to one surgeries with industry professionals on topics such as Finance, Marketing, Accounting Systems, Legal Advice…
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Harnessing Africa’s People & Animal Power
Many thanks to AfriGadget for promoting this. The HAPV (Advertised as HAPPY) from Pretoria, South Africa-based Wheel & Water is a twist on the ‘horse and buggy’ mode of transportation. Assisted by MACHETE, a buggy is fitted with a solar panel that charges a 12 volt battery under the driver’s seat & the “HAPPY” becomes…
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Christmas Cards from Kenya
Kibera Paper.Com Cards are made by women from the Kibera slums area of Nairobi. Beautifullycrafted, hand-made, using recycled paper & all-natural products.Buying these cards will allow these women to support their families, they receive 50% of all profits.Contact AVIF or Rachel Baughen for further information. Technorati Tags: christmas cards, recycled, poverty Powered by ScribeFire.
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Geo-engineering worry
As already stated by others, I’m no expert on global warming, but maybe Planktos isn’t either … “returning our ocean plankton to 1980 levels of health would remove halfof all our man-made emissions each year, or more than five times thereductions called for in the Kyoto Protocol” so they claim. Lets hope that’s all ocean-seeding…
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FREE durable, portable power from metal/air fuel cells
Trevor Jackson & Eric Cailhol of Metalectrique are highlighting the fruits of their labour & obvious skills, on You Tube with an example of one of their fuel cells in action. The battery is made using plastic pipe and standard parts (apart from the cathode). The fuel is a mixture of crushed beer cans, and…