A couple of interesting sites
Listening to the local radio news during the week I was pointed to a couple of interesting websites. despite my recent whinging about the lack of ethical programming around I do think that my local BBC station - Radio Ulster - does do a pretty good job with covering ethical issues.
The first site I came across was travelwiseni.com - a website that promotes carpooling in Northern Ireland. The idea is that people cooperate with neighbours to drive into and from work. The passengers share the fuel costs and it means there are fewer cars on the road and it costs all involved less. The show mentioned that 48% of people who drive to work do not need their car for their job. I know from cycling into work that the vast majority of cars that pass me only contain the driver. I mentioned to a colleague at work who has to pay a lot to park while he is at work that he could carshare or at least take the bus. He agreed that it would be cheaper and probably would take less time to get to work but he just couldn't give up the convenience of his own transport. It gives rise to the question of how expensive is fuel going to get before people can be weaned off their comfy automobiles into more environmentally-friendly modes of transport?
The other site that piqued my interest is entitled Food4thought - a site promoted by the British Heart Foundation. It is aimed at children and early teens. It offers basic information on the content of junk food and even suggests healthy recipes for kids to make themselves. I think this last item is very important - until people begin to care what they eat and to cook for themselves again, health problems in families and obesity in the young will not abate.
Among the interesting statistics that the site puts forward is that anyone who consumes one standard 50g bag of crisps a day will have consumed 4 1/2 litres of cooking oil over a one year period - yeuuuchh! Great promotional image too!!
The first site I came across was travelwiseni.com - a website that promotes carpooling in Northern Ireland. The idea is that people cooperate with neighbours to drive into and from work. The passengers share the fuel costs and it means there are fewer cars on the road and it costs all involved less. The show mentioned that 48% of people who drive to work do not need their car for their job. I know from cycling into work that the vast majority of cars that pass me only contain the driver. I mentioned to a colleague at work who has to pay a lot to park while he is at work that he could carshare or at least take the bus. He agreed that it would be cheaper and probably would take less time to get to work but he just couldn't give up the convenience of his own transport. It gives rise to the question of how expensive is fuel going to get before people can be weaned off their comfy automobiles into more environmentally-friendly modes of transport?
The other site that piqued my interest is entitled Food4thought - a site promoted by the British Heart Foundation. It is aimed at children and early teens. It offers basic information on the content of junk food and even suggests healthy recipes for kids to make themselves. I think this last item is very important - until people begin to care what they eat and to cook for themselves again, health problems in families and obesity in the young will not abate.
Among the interesting statistics that the site puts forward is that anyone who consumes one standard 50g bag of crisps a day will have consumed 4 1/2 litres of cooking oil over a one year period - yeuuuchh! Great promotional image too!!
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