“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Below is a letter going out to the leading local milk delivery company here in the UK - seems to me they'd be ideal to spearhead a drive towards local, seasonal product sourcing and distribution. A draft of the letter going out tonight - I'd love to hear your thoughts - good idea or stoopid? Dear Sir Premium Local Produce – sourcing, managing, and distributing As you are fully aware, there is a growing awareness of “food miles” and associated carbon footprints in food distribution. All of the supermarket chains, to a greater or lesser extent, have prepared strategies to demonstrate their green credentials. Often, these credentials do not stand up to even surface scrutiny; take a look at the number of supermarket vegetable products that are flown in from the Ivory Coast, or Kenya, then distributed nationally by road. It seems to me that Dairy Crest have a uniquely golden opportunity to leverage several unique features of your distribution model: · An already “green” lo

Northern Rock It seems that nervous savers have removed at least £3,000,000,000 in cash from their Northern Rock accounts in the last week, wiping out over 70% of the share price, exposing them to the possibility that they'll either: Get bought by a competitor get bought by the Bank of England, effectively privatising the bank and making the Government the biggest property company in the UK... of course, they could also simply weather the storm, but they might have made life easier for themselves if they'd maybe offered some sort of "loyalty Bonus" for investors who trusted Northern Rock and left their money with the bank; it could be a percentage of savings up to a maximum of say £500 for someone saving £50,000 or more. The minimum would be something like £10 then up on a sliding scale. The condition being that no money could be taken from the account. Going further, they could maybe even consider a "golden hello" to new investors, with an attractive saving

Idea Overview Coherent light, that is the light generated by lasers, has many unique attributes, leading to it’s use in a vast and ever-growing list of applications. The property relevant here is laser lights intensity and ability to be extremely finely focused. Using a commercially available hologram projector (of the type used at nightclubs), a template may be made of just about anything; this could be used with the projector and shone on a wall coated with the special wet paint. The laser light would etch the design onto the wall while wet, modifying the active pigment ingredient in the paint and burning in the design permanently as the paint dried.. I believe the depth of detail would be unparalleled and impossible to match, since the effect is in effect similar to wet-plate photography. Applications could include Advertising hoardings, prestigious buildings - even homes, streets and offices. Detail Assuming that the design is for the reproduction of a famous etching of the Thames

Overview Detail Time/cost to develop A manmade paving slab impregnated with a compound highly antagonistic to slugs and snails, and yet harmless to other flora and fauna. Can be laid either as a protective perimeter, or directly around plants or as an entire paved area. Other options for this composition could be: The manufacture of flower pots/containers incorporating the compound, or; Developing a compound and applicator capable of allowing the spraying of the compound on to existing patios/paved/ areas The trick is to identify an impregnating compound that is: almost insoluble to water, or (preferably) only reactive to slug/snail slime Only effective against slugs and snails, yet harmless to other creatures cheap enough for volume production stable enough not to be affected by the paving slab manufacturing process. The manufacturing process itself will