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When I was younger, I had a vision that everyone would live in eco-homes and save energy, that the rail service would run to every town at 200 miles an hour and be really cheap. That schools would be fantastic and creative, that medicine would have cured most ills and we would be living longer. I looked forward to towns and cities being clean and beautiful with more trees and parks and that everyone would be peaceful and crime very low.

Instead we have everyone individually buying cars and stopping each other from travelling, improving their houses in a hundred different ways - most of which aren't improvements at all, getting away from everybody else, not working together etc.etc. It's not the same in the Scandinavian countries - they pay higher taxes and working together have brought themselves the highest living standards in the world.

I had problems starting my car sometimes, when i started the car in the morning it would start first time. once i drove around for a while and tried to restart the car it wouldnt - leave it for half hour and it would start!!! I then had it in the garage for 3 weeks while i was doing some jobs on the car, took it for a test drive and within 10 mins the car stalled and wouldnt go into gear...left it for 30 mins and the car then started and i brough it home. Its been parked up outside the house now for a few days and when i try and start it again it wont start or go into gear just shows "-" and says eco mode. I have boosted the battery and tried to jump start but nothing....can anyone help please im reading revews online and im just not sure....had no problem with my gear box before it went into the garage. i changed the springs and lost alittle gear oil so have toped it up!

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Whilst researching, and doing a country-by-country analysis... I noted that where there are very few trees, people tend to go crazy.

Maybe that is why we are advised, in the Bible, to not let the trees go from our sight.

We have now covered over approx. half the Earth with concrete.
Isn't it time we stopped using concrete? (The mixing of which causes one eighth of the world's CO2 emissions).

If Gaza was made into beautiful wooded parks, with lots of fruit and vegetables growing for free, with borders of fragrant flowers, the people living there enjoying a decent quality of life, feeling healthier and happier...
now wouldn't that be a great way to start the creation of God's "Kingdom Here On Earth" - the whole region could be re-named: The Holy Land... and this could be a glorious example to the rest of the world...
Instead of fighting and killing for ruined dry dusty barren land...
Green the desert, transform the people, and share the many wonders...

By saying NO to concrete buildings that resemble ugly carbuncle multistory car-parks, people could instead opt to live in these parks, in eco-friendly, off-grid homes...

(FREE info here: See: Project it: http://www.the-alternative.org.uk )
No, not mud huts! Like I said, see: Project it - all the info. is in there re: how to make new-style, eco-friendly, off-grid, low-cost, decent homes.
It would take a joint effort helped by many people.
I don't believe in apathetic approaches to problems.
This is a solution ALL benefit from...
Use small solar power drills to get water.

Did I say use wood to build new homes? No!

We need a leader in these desperate times but we have MP's standing who are not taken to task on their conduct and offer no leadership to Britain.
No one with balls.
No one with leadership skills.
Just been to listen to Tobias Ellwood (Conservative,Boscombe East) explain the Conservative way in a meeting down here in Bournemouth.

Nice guy but a fence sitter.

With the country on it's knees do we have time to wait for the Tories to grow up and get off the fence.

I went there with an open mind and came out realising this nice guy needs a kick up the pants.
He doesn't want to vote on the fox hunting laws and said he will abstain.
He doesn't address immigration in any satisfactory manner that makes anything clear.
He talks of years ahead not the immediate threats.
He is happy with the EU but wants reform which will take years and not be effective.
He claims his full allowances within the rules but costing us all thousands of pounds each month.

EG:His second home down in Bournemouth costs the taxpayer £2000 PER MONTH
His bed cost us £1,145 and there are many more such bills that see him laughing all the way to the bank.
He is standing for another 5 years in Parliament and is a nice,easy-going guy but knows how the system works for him.
Nice guys in politics will always be liked but not respected as others decide the countries direction.

I can't vote for a party that has no conviction and will promise progress but will clearly not perform.

The only bills Tobias Ellwood deals with effectively are the ones he gives us.

Kings Park School Conservative meeting this evening 7pm

Daily Eco June 2009
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4447259.TOBIAS_ELLWOOD__up_to_the_limit_in_incidental_expenses/

Berlin - Stung by the economic crisis, a brothel in Berlin has leapt on the "green" bandwagon and is offering discounts to clients who can prove they arrived by public transport or bicycle - with some success.

"Everyone's a winner," explained Regina Goetz, a former prostitute who runs the "Maison d'envie" (House of Desire) brothel in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, a district in the former East Berlin, which is a stronghold for the ecologist Green party.

"The environment is a topic on everyone's lips and it's pretty difficult to park around here. So we came up with the idea of an 'eco discount' of $7.40 to anyone who leaves the car at home," Goetz told AFP.

"The crisis has slashed our turnover in half in the last year," the 56-year-old told AFP over coffee and cakes, flanked by scantily clad prostitutes.

But the green discounts have proved a roaring success and got business back on track, she said.

To qualify for the discount, "clients who come by bike show their helmet or their padlock keys," she said. "Others hand in their ticket or monthly pass if they have come on the bus."

Nice atmosphere

The brothel itself is a model of discretion - only a small brass plaque advertising "the little sexy address" betrays the true purpose of the building, housed in a block with a bike shop, a burger bar and a pub.

Clients pass through a courtyard scattered with rubbish dumps, pushchairs, kids' bikes and buggies before arriving at a corridor where a doormat emblazoned with a red heart indicates the hoped-for destination.

"We have a really nice atmosphere here, the neighbours are great," said one of the prostitutes, a pretty blonde in her 30s with short hair, sporting fishnet tights and sexy red lacy undies under her turquoise dressing-gown.

She said she had already welcomed several customers on the eco tariff, like all her colleagues, about a dozen woman aged between 20 and 45, the majority of whom work part-time.

One of them said she was a nurse secretly moonlighting as a prostitute. Another said she was a dietary counsellor in a gym - "but times are hard". A third said she was a housewife.

As for the clients, they come in all shapes and sizes, from all social classes and all ages, right up to the "doyen", who is 86 years old, said Goetz.
All the employees of the "Maison d'envie" wholeheartedly approve of the eco tariff. "Regina is full of good ideas," said one.
The establishment also offers special "weekend rates" with Jacuzzi options and a "two-for-one" rate.

For Goetz, the brothel is "a business like any other" and prostitution is a legal sector in Germany with around 400 000 employees.
"In these tight times, we are cutting costs. We've binned the tax advisor, reduced the hours of the cleaning lady and I only buy low-cost cleaning products," she said.

And like any other head of industry, she is careful to appear bullish on the sector's prospects.
"In a business like ours, there are always ups and downs. But we want the recovery to come quickly. I...

I suffer from depression, but have come to terms with it and just try and get on with things in life. I have been at university since September, and love my course, despite the fact I have been ill (physically).

I have decided today though to disown my family. My parents split last year, and my Dad barely has anything to do with me (possibly because there is every chance a new woman is in his life). The only time I get correspondence from him is on Christmas and birthdays. I saw him for my birthday last month and offered to see him again, but he said he was busy, even though he is retired and lives in the same city as what I am studying in (Edinburgh).

I go up north home once a month or so to see my Mum and Nan, and things were ok, until I came back for Christmas. Ever since I came back, arguments have arisen; I was very upset to find that my car had been used by my Mum and the diesel not replaced etc; it's in my Nan's driveway as she has said I can keep it there, yet my Mum's so called cheeky friend from Hungary had the nerve to park hers there, so mine was right by the road and there have been a few reported incidents of dustcarts driving recklessly on the roads there, so am concerned. I also discovered this Hungarian mate of my Mum's will be living at home for two months. I dont like the friend and it has always been the case that if my Mum doesnt like my friends, I am not allowed to have them back. When I mentioned this she said "it's not YOUR house".

At the same time last year, we sold our much loved house of 15 years, everything about it was perfect. I hate the house my Mum lives in now, where my things are. At the old house, I had security and privacy, now it feels like I have nowhere to go, as she says it's not my room etc. Today in particular was awful as I got up early to do my Christmas shopping. I had four angry missed phonecalls from my Mum fuming that I had accidently locked her out, yet she blamed me solely as she didnt have her key with her. When I got back, she wanted me to move my car from my Nan's driveway as my cousins were arriving today so I did, but before I did, she said I was to blame for most things and am so selfish; there was a misunderstanding with my Nan, as I asked her if she needed anything from the shops when I was in town, to which she replied my cousins would get it, so left them to it. However, today she asked for cough medicine, and again, I got the blame for the misunderstanding. It was also mentioned that one of the nosy neighbours saw me twice and I "was so rude to ignore her"- even though the first time I hadnt seen her, the second I was speaking on my mobile and briefly acknowledged her.

I have said to my Mum that I no longer want to be part of the family, and she said that was good, as she wants me out. I am 23 and although this is the first year I have left home for uni, can stand on my own two feet, but do need some advice.

So firstly, I need to get my stuff into storage. Does anyone know prices...

Have the government learnt the lessons from 1953? Does Westminster care? They want to build 625,000 new homes in Anglia, but decrease the money to protect the coastline - anyone else see the contridiction? At one of the weak points there is only 5 miles of land separating the national park of the Norfolk Broads from being breached by the sea - if this does happen one of the mst unique habitats and eco-systems in the UK will be seriously damaged. Whats the point of funding a national park if its going to be destroyed through lack of protection from coastal defences?

I know it is nature and evolution that East Anglia is 'falling into the sea', but surely we must protect as much as possible for as long as we can.