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Europe to miss climate goal as Olio raises £31m
Europe will miss its key 2030 climate goal by 21 years unless urgent action is taken, warns a new study, as giveaway app Olio raises £31 million to tackle food waste. Meanwhile, oil giant Shell announces plans to install 50,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging points across the UK, Liontrust launches a new sustainable multi-asset fund, and ethical investing app tickr rebrands as CIRCA5000 amid three-figure growth in its customer base. It’s the Good With Money weekly news brief.
10 smart ways to spend less money
There’s nothing more frustrating than checking your bank each week and thinking “Where has all my money gone?!” Whether you overspent when you were out for food or drinks with friends, bought one too many takeaway coffees on the way to work, or just seem to be spending more than necessary on your weekly food shop, there are some great hacks out there to help you save a few more pennies on each of your purchases. To give you a helping hand, here are 10 top ways to spend less money: 1.
10 smart ways to spend less money
Rick Harris is director of money-saving website www.offeroftheday.co.uk, which pulls together the best offers from some of Britain’s leading retailers.
Tap the Power of Flow to Develop Lean Thinkers
The secret sauce of lean is the development of people. One person after the other, one quality issue after the next. When a person develops their technical competence, they become more autonomous. People who have a greater sense of autonomy will become more confident in their own abilities. When we are more confident in our abilities, we are more willing to try new things, to look for opportunities for kaizen. Kaizen, in turn, develops our technical skills.
Nine Meals Away from Anarchy
It started in Greece, where a national debt crisis led to millions of laid-off workers and cut-off pensioners. Suddenly unable to afford basic groceries, formerly middle and working class people started buying low-cost staples in bulk from local farmers. City governments set up drop-offs where people bought sacks of potatoes for a fraction of what supermarkets charged, but more than farmers ever got from middlemen.
Pardon the turkey on Thursday’s menu
While President Trump is pardoning two turkeys for Thanksgiving, every one of us can exercise that same presidential power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance. And here are some other good reasons: You can brag about pardoning a turkey — like Trump (or not). You will stay awake for your entire favorite football game. Your sensible vegetarian kid won’t have to boycott the family dinner. Plant-based holiday roasts don’t have to carry government warning labels.
Animal-based diets destroy climate, too
Animal-based diets affect climate, tooRight on the heels of utter devastation wrought by Hurricanes Florence and Michael comes an alarming report in the prestigious journal Nature that mitigation of global climate change will require a massive switch to plant-based eating.The report concludes that global warming threatens the world’s very food supply, in addition to generating scorching heat, raging wildfires, devastating hurricanes, massive flooding and rising sea levels.
‘Big Bang’ actors are big on vegan lifestyle
As “The Big Bang Theory” CBS juggernaut rolls into a record 12th season this week, most of the gang exploring mysteries of the universe have gone vegan, opting for plant-based eating. Leading actress Kaley Cuoco (Penny) also campaigns against Canadian slaughter of baby seals. Mayim Bialik (Amy) and Kunal Ayyar (Raj) are asking the U.S. to join European Union in ending cruel cosmetic testing on animals.
Vegan approach would help v. climate change
With scorching heat and raging wildfires in the West and torrential downpours and massive flooding in the East, global warming is not just about a gentle sea rise anymore. These tragic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere call for drastic remedies.For starters, we should rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and actually become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most effective ways is by changing our diet.Yes, that.
Let’s reject unhealthy, cruel effects of dairy
As I look forward to Mother’s Day and its cherished bond between mother and child, my mind wanders to dairy cows, worldwide symbols of motherhood, who never get to see or nurture their own babies. Newborn calves are torn from their mothers at birth and turned into veal cutlets, so we can drink the milk designed for them. The grief-stricken mothers bellow for days, hoping in vain for their return.Most dairy cows spend their lives chained on a concrete floor, with no access to the outdoors.
Our meat labels cite lots of ‘fooling’ info
The coming April Fool’s Day reminds us how the meat, egg and dairy industries play us for fools every day.The meat industry has developed a whole dictionary designed to fool unwary consumers. The flesh of pigs is called “pork” or “bacon” to fool viewers of “Charlotte’s Web” into eating it.
Lent is a good time to stop eating meat
Feb. 14 marked the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, when Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness.The call to abstain from eating animals is as current as the teaching of evangelical leader Franklin Graham, yet as traditional as the Bible (Genesis 1:29). Methodist founder John Wesley, Salvation Army pioneers William and Catherine Booth, and Seventh-day Adventist Church founder Ellen G.
Nine Meals Away from Anarchy
It started in Greece, where a national debt crisis led to millions of laid-off workers and cut-off pensioners. Suddenly unable to afford basic groceries, formerly middle and working class people started buying low-cost staples in bulk from local farmers. City governments set up drop-offs where people bought sacks of potatoes for a fraction of what supermarkets charged, but more than farmers ever got from middlemen.
Parents should push for good school meals
With the new school year upon us, parents turn their attention to school clothes, school supplies and school food.Yes, school food! More than 31 million children rely on school meals for their daily nutrition, which too often consists of highly processed food laden with saturated fat.Not surprisingly, one-third of our children have become overweight or obese.
A meat-heavy diet harms environment
As thousands across the U.S. get ready to protest environmental budget cuts, each of us can also help with our driving, our recycling and our diet. Yes, our diet.A 2010 United Nations report blames animal agriculture for 70 percent of global freshwater use, 38 percent of land use, and 19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
4 Ways a Password Could be Hacked Using Common Linux Tools
If you develop software in C (or any other language), you should know that using the strcmp function (or the equivalent in other languages) for password validation leaves the password and the program open to compromise. For those unfamiliar with this function, strcmp takes two parameters that contain a string and compares the two to see if they are the same. When used to validate a password, it exposes both the password and the program to compromise.
Go vegan to improve health and live longer - Greensboro News & Record: Letters To Editor
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