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  • Huh?

    They're not closing shops and swapping them for vans.

    Shopping from home is potentially by far the greenest method. Supermarkets have huge energy bills with bright lighting, heating the shop floor in conjunction with permenantly open fridges etc.

    Food can be kept perfectly in storage for non display purposes at a tiny fraction of the cost inc. delivery.

    potentially, not yet

  • i have started doing this with sainsburys. It is probably greener if you are boring enough to work out the energy saving of the stuff not being on the supermarket shelf and fuel costs for getting there.

    sainsburys seem to recruit their drivers straight from prison though, as they have all been dodgy buggers. i will try ocado

  • aaargh, I've just started ordering fornightly delivery with Ocado for big items. Delivery vans are the fastest growing apparently with the growth of internet shopping.

    On another note, I've just passed a future Starbucks shop that had a poster "shared planet". ;(

    Time to watch the Age of Stupid again.

  • Nana can deliver cheaper, quicker and greener. We pay all our newly immigrant drivers* less* than the minimum wage and pass the slavings on to you!

  • what about all the laminated driving licences you had to pay for?

  • The drivers pay for their own licences and their Nana branded Waffa clothing.
    Be green, be stylish, be nana!

  • What colour are the vans? Ocado texts me the day before delivery "Martin in the raspberry van will deliver your shopping". Can you offer the same service?

  • Hippy its not true,
    some marketing twat wrote it,
    I suggest just altering all the vans in your neighbourhood thus:-
    "we're as green as walking to the supermarket"
    "we're a greedy ass supermarket"
    the simple removal of some letters with a stanley, and addition of 3 with a marker pen should see you right.

  • I can promise you this VeeVee; Nana would never employ anyone with a name like Martin!
    Our vans are Sweatshop Yellow; a brand identity for the 21st century.

  • Giz a job, Will.

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  • What colour are the vans? Ocado texts me the day before delivery "Martin in the raspberry van will deliver your shopping". Can you offer the same service?

    That's not the colour of the van they're referring to - it's the shape.

    The pineapple van has trouble with low bridges.

    Will's vans all resemble a fleet of yellow didlos trundling saucily around the countryside, delivering the nations organic turkey twizzlers and ethically sourced alphabetti spaghetti.

  • I have to walk to a bikeshop now. Seriously. Irony is a bitch.

  • Hippy its not true,
    some marketing twat wrote it,
    I suggest just altering all the vans in your neighbourhood thus:-
    "we're as green as walking to the supermarket"
    ** "we're a greedy ass supermarket"**
    the simple removal of 2 letters with a stanley, and addition of 3 with a marker pen should see you right.

    I'd love to do 'em for false advertising or something. I don't know why this slogan has fscked me off so much. Maybe it's because I'm tired of dodging vans and fat people in cars?

    eats another lamington

  • I have to walk to a bikeshop now. Seriously. Irony is a bitch.

    Employ me, I could do this.

    I am green.

  • The slogan is meanifngless, as Oliver points out without seeing their working then it means nothing.

    It does (sort of) lead to an interesting point though.

    The whole Green thing is about energy, specifically the costs of that energy.

    In those terms we, as cyclists, are clearly guilty of taking more than our fair share of the resources by the very act of cycling, surely?

    My Garmin told me that yesterday I used around 900 calories going to work and back, then another 800 or so going for a run afterward.

    That's got to be equivalent to 800g of cow, and the energy requried to raise that, slaughter it, prepare it and so on, or (probably) something like a million carrots.

    If I'd got the train my carbon footprint would be hugely smaller, as I'd have burned through maybe 10% (if that) of the calories?

  • It's time to sit very still and let the world come to you...

  • Exactly, minimise your energy expenditure, and therefore your carbon footprint.

    The London Marathon should be reviled as the horrifying celebration of excess that it really is, and the Olympics banned for good.

  • Eat less, don't eat meat.

    If I didnt' have to wait for all the fucking delivery vans I'd get home quicker and expend less energy.

  • But you've got to eat more veg to get the same calories as tasty tasty meat, so more transport costs etc.

    I think steak is therefore more "Eco"

  • You can grow your own vegies. No walking, even more eco.

    Anyway, there's probably more energy in 1kg of spuds than 1kg of steak.

  • But you've had to earn the money to buy (or rent) the garden, and you probably burned some calories doing that.

    Best to live in a bedsit, on benefits, eating steak out of a tin.

  • Hippy its not true,
    some marketing twat wrote it,

    It is true. That the marketing twat missed the point and confused the benefit of home shopping is only a diversion

  • If I'd got the train my carbon footprint would be hugely smaller, as I'd have burned through maybe 10% (if that) of the calories?

    As if people who don't exercise eat less!

  • I also like the "hugely smaller" hehehe

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