lineartechnics

Just wondering...

Saw this, and thought £5,000 seems like a lot for 50watts:

http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/page/hifichoice?entry=...

They've done it in Ireland, and now Hong Kong is doing it:

"Plastic bag levy to pay for green education in Hong Kong" on Yahoo News at:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070522/tsc-hongkong...

"Money raised from a Hong Kong government levy to be placed on the use of polluting plastic bags will be used to fund green education programmes, the environment chief said Tuesday.

The bags are considered harmful to the environment as they take so long to decompose when trashed. The levy is aimed at reducing the number used each year.

Environment chief Sarah Liao said the levy money would be used to teach environmental issues to school children and to fund conservation programmes."

If they can make such a sensible change, why can't our government, which keeps telling us it's supposedly supportive of green issues?

Evening, all.

I work as a volunteer mechanic with a cycling-promotion organisation called Pedal Power London (our web site is at http://www.pedalpowerlondon.org/). We've just moved into new, bigger workshop premises off Shepherd's Bush and we're looking to expand the sorts of services we offer: pool-bike schemes, 'Dr Bike' mobile cycle surgeries (where we visit companies, town halls, etc and repair people's bikes for free) and cycle maintenance lessons.

Trouble is, our second mechanic has moved out of the area, so we're down to one mechanic (me). Are there any keen cycle mechanics, or enthusiastic 'amateurs', who might be interested in doing maybe four hours (or a bit more!) a week, working on our stock of bikes to keep them on the road? We can cover travelling expenses, obviously.

Cheers, Jon.

Evening, all.

I work as a volunteer mechanic with a cycling-promotion organisation called Pedal Power London (our web site is at http://www.pedalpowerlondon.org/). We've just moved into new, bigger workshop premises off Shepherd's Bush and we're looking to expand the sorts of services we offer: pool-bike schemes, 'Dr Bike' mobile cycle surgeries (where we visit companies, town halls, etc and repair people's bikes for free) and cycle maintenance lessons.

Trouble is, our second mechanic has moved out of the area, so we're down to one mechanic (me). Are there any keen cycle mechanics, or enthusiastic 'amateurs', who might be interested in doing maybe four hours (or a bit more!) a week, working on our stock of bikes to keep them on the road? We can cover travelling expenses, obviously.

Cheers, Jon.