Green Trust, a renewable energy research center, powers their facilities with waste vegetable oil. Their 12.5 kw Detroit Diesel 2-71 generator (the VeggieGen) happily slurps used fryer grease instead of diesel fuel. It’s clean burning, renewable, and a recycled product that normally gets landfilled. See the details at www.green-trust.org
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Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2004 in Portland, Oregon on 10th to 12th November – 3 days of workshops, talks and exhibitions for anyone involved in green building. There’ll also be tours of green buildings.
Fees vary depending on how many events you want to attend.
For more information and registration see the website
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10 easy steps to start a vegetable garden
– Select a good spot for your garden: make sure the soil’s well drained, not too shallow, not too rocky and avoid shady areas. Remember vegetables can be grown on terraces too.
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Garbage foraging is not new, but we are here to make it respectable. We had a boost last year when thousands of middle class Argentinian families were filmed on the garbage heaps of Buenos Aires after the country’s spectacular economic collapse.
Mongo: Adventures in trash by Ted Botha (Bloomsbury $23.95) is a tribute to the garbage foragers of another city: New York.
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Halfords make bikes, car, outdoors and workshop equipment and motorcycle accessories. They are always recruiting and have a website especially for that: www.halfordscareers.com. Roles range from store manager to IT technician or leading role in the head office. They have a graduate recruitment programme, gforce, for which you just need a degree, in any subject, and ambition to work in buying or marketing.
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Bicycle trailers are the solution if you’ve got children or are always carrying stuff around. These days, trailers are safe, sleek and practical. Here are the best ones we’ve come across.
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