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POPSSupermarkets Throwing Away 2 Million Tons Of Food A Year We visited a dozen stores over several nights last week to check what was being thrown away and discovered hundreds of pounds worth of food dumped. At a Sainsbury’s superstore next to the Dome in Greenwich, South East London – the chain’s flagship “environmentally-friendly” shop with its own wind turbines – staff said it was standard practice to throw away food before its sell-by date. And they’re not even allowed to take it home. One said: “Someone just stands there and throws it into the skip. We wish we could buy it – but we’re not allowed.” Pointing to meat on the “reduced” shelf, he added: “Come midnight, anything that hasn’t been sold will get taken off the shelf... if it’s out of date it will be logged on the computer, put against our losses, then in the skip.” Four-pint bottles of milk with nine days still to run had been thrown out, along with nine cans of cola with a date stamp of April 2009.
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POPSDrivers warned over 'cheap' fuel offer About bloody time people were told what actually happens in this con job. Why feel good about saving $2 on a grocery bill, if you get that petrol. Rather the prices were kept down, myself.
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POPSEdible Weeds * Never ingest a weed without first being certain that it is an edible plant! Books and the Web can help you with identification of edible weeds; but better yet, contact your local wildflower society or similar source for expert guidance. * Just because a particular plant is an "edible weed," that doesn't mean that every part of it should be eaten. In some instances of "edible weeds," just the root or leaf, e.g., should be eaten. * Likewise, some "edible weeds" must be cooked first -- never eat them raw!
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POPSLiving in the Future Some info and videos about how technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant.
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POPSFox News in trouble again over Obama smear: 'baby mama' Fox News must be stopped! They are no more credible than a supermarket tabloid -- they make up whatever they please and present it as news, without checking their facts or worrying about the fallout of their false accusations and smears. You can add your voice to the outcry. Go to MoveOn.Org to sign their petition: http://pol.moveon.org/stopthesmears/o.pl?id=13009-3198930-pXO_.Xx&t=5 or you can go to BraveNewFilms.org to sign their petition: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/573-fox-attacks-obama
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POPSWanted: inner-city supermarkets Before the WalMart Supercenter era, community markets where the norm, now with sprawling shopping centers moving out into the burbs, the hometown markets where forced to close up shop. And yet despite all the 'change' things still remain the same. This story shows once again that the small business owner working in his or her own community has the most positive effect on that local economy.
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POPShunter-gatherers in the city? well, gatherers at least The biggest challenge I face in this regard is a husband who grew up in NYC and is very, verrrrry suspicious of anything growing anywhere other than a cultivated garden. "You can't eat that! What is it? You don't know what's on it! What if a dog peed on it?" "Honey, it's rosemary, and it's growing four feet above the ground. I doubt any dog is acrobatic enough to reach it."
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