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Friday, 19 December 2008

My sincere thanks to all those who voted... The picture to the left was chosen as the winner of the environmental prize!!!! We have our start up funds for the new venture :-) This is so so exciting!! It's really hard to believe one person could win a $10000 environmental prize AND a $5000 environmental prize all in 1 year but as I always say, anything is possible... This is the boost the project needed to get off the ground over christmas/new year...

I also made a fantastic discovery today... Health by Chocolate - fantastically organic chocolate, supposedly good for the environment AND good for your health. No more low iron or low anything else... I can chocolate way my good health! Unfortunately it's only available in the US... But Xin and I tried to create healthy, study enhancing chocolate during exams once so perhaps there is another business opportunity for us there! I have always wanted to make chocolate, from crushing the cacao beans to decorating the wrappers... and now that there is a plantation in Queensland it can be sustainable as well as healthy!

This blog is a bit all over the place today... I'll put more consistent and better blogging on my list of new years resolutions too, but I just felt I needed to mention a few startling facts.... Grace, an old friend from school recently recommended I read The Honey Spinner a worldwide honey adventure (yum!). The narrator (also named Grace) drizzles her way through various pots of 'liquid gold' discovering some serious issues behind the tasty industry. Albert Einstein once said that: 'If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man'. While the current focus is on the US financial crisis another crisis is unfolding, the ramifications of which might prove to be just as serious. Colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that has been called the Marie Celeste of the bee world, has been occurring since 2006. Colonies of adult bees just disappear. Few bodies are ever found and tests show that they are full of pathogens. Nearly a third of honeybee colonies have been destroyed by the syndrome and scientists do not yet know why it is occurring. I really don't know what we can do about this, but more people should know!

To really top off a very varied post, I couldn't resist including the story of another crazy Tesla devotee (my dad is another)... Tesla, while a great physicist, was slightly troubled in that he used to vibrate buildings at the exact frequency that it took to make them collapse... He was also famous for the Tesla coil... A doctor in Western Australia has chosen to follow in his footsteps make electrical art, Tesla style. Warren has launched Tesla Downunder to showcase his artistc experiments which use up to 500000 volts from the mains, and a long exposure camera...

Thanks again for your votes!!

Labels: bees, chocolate, competition, environmentalism, honey, winner

posted by genloz at 6:19 PM 2 Comments

Mixed bag...

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Today was a bit of a mixed bag... some ups... some downs... some lefts... some rights... ok.... that was a little bit dodgy but just not sure where to start! At the risk of this becoming the 'L' only blog I'll proceed with my day. I attended the Green Business conference today which was a bonus - time off work - free food - learning about climate change, what more could you ask for? Unfortunately the conference turned out to be almost exactly the same as every other green business conference I've ever been to - but I may have potentially generated some Green Card clients so all was not lost. It finished a little earlier than anticipated so I had time to drop in on Mag Nation on the way back... as well as passing the doughboy donut store for some 'homer style' donuts for Ganesh (not that he eats anything sweet but if it's Homer related I may have a chance of corrupting his palette)... As I was in the area I stopped at the blood bank to make a donation but to my horror discovered that my heamoglobin had dropped from previously 144 to a sobering 112... I am no longer eligible to donate blood! Clearly this has everything to do with my starting full time working with daily overtime, stopping all exercise and gaining 10kg, but it was quite a shock! The nurse sent some blood off for an iron test and apparently I'm supposed to start eating red meat which conflicts significantly with my environmental vegetarianism... All hope is now pinned on bike riding to work from the new house!

Arriving at home, G and I had a bit of a disagreement that lasted longer than it should have.. and there was some more work updating websites etc... but all is well now and we're listening to Creedance Clearwater Revival extracts on the iTunes store!

Btw please vote on my entries into the ING my dream is competition:

• Creative Recycling business funding


• Solar eclipse trip


• Solar panels for the new house


• To win $10000

Ok I know they are pretty lame, but you've got to be in it to win it, right?

Note - it's a cookies based voting system... and cookies aren't registered if you vote with google chrome incognito... Just an observation... Not suggesting anything dodgy ;-)

Labels: competition

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