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da-robster
06-04-2008, 03:14 PM
This is simple you find an intresting fact, post a link as evidence and write the fact.

I'll start:

Only tropical trees offset C02- cows are one of the single most ungreen itams in the world

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/01/11/do1101.xml

Mibbes Aye
06-04-2008, 06:40 PM
This is simple you find an intresting fact, post a link as evidence and write the fact.

I'll start:

Only tropical trees offset C02- cows are one of the single most ungreen itams in the world

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/01/11/do1101.xml

The NHS is the largest (http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=796) employer in Europe and according to some reports the third largest (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1050197.ece) in the world.

Greentinted
11-04-2008, 07:43 AM
I discovered only this week that "Humble Pie" is a genuine foodstuff! Apparently it is a regular pie containing the cooked entrails of deer (called 'umbles'). I havent had a bit myself but it sounds offal!:greengrin

Perhaps some butchers could elucidate.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/5020.php