Lighting, air conditioning and refrigeration: three things that are crucially important to all businesses, regardless of location or environmental factors. The strange thing is that although companies spend millions every year keeping their premises in good working order, the majority of them don’t even consider how they can cut down on the masses of energy they use – odd considering that most of the warmth generated in a building is lost through poor insulation. Fortunately there are companies like Enigin PLC about, who not only know about all this stuff but are constantly striving to create energy-saving products that can be used in both small and large businesses; not only that, but they can make a difference almost overnight. These products make your air conditioning work that much better and can actually cut your electricity bill in half! Don’t believe me? Have a look at the following link which explains how they achieve it: http://www.eniginpartner.com/products-solutions/enigin-portfolio.php

Of course, a lot of companies boast about what they can do for you, but how many of them actually explain it in-depth in a language that the average person on the street can understand without getting baffled by carbon emissions and the like? Luckily for you that’s Enigin’s speciality. Of course, all this talk of new products begs the question: How can they possibly create energy saving products which aren’t made of plastic and other bad-for-the-environment materials? Well, yes, that’s an issue, but so is saving millions of pounds that our society could better use for other things. The sooner we make the switch, the more efficient our planet will be.

In this post the quality of tv’s is mentioned. Low and behold the LCD overpriced tv’s picture quality was not as clear as a ten year old regular tv thats not LCD. I find myself having to agree. I recall even before the LCDs were affordable to all in the UK an aquantance of mine purchase a large projector size LCD tv.

Yes it was actually the size of those projecter screens one projects slides and movies onto from the pc and the like. The first thing I said when I saw it on the wall I believe was “its black!”However I soon noticed that if you saw the screen from a certain angle the picutre was a bit clearer.

Not much has changed it seems as my regular size tft tv/pc monitor/cd/dvd/mp3 player doesn’t have the same quality as an old crt tv either even with all the other things it can do. You know I much prefer the old TVs for picture quality even if they were a bit bulky.

So lets think of some positive things to say about those old massive TVs to give a few props to Enigin Geek for bringing this up:

For starters you can watch your favorite programes and special events with no problems. Those once in a while live events of national interest such as the world cup mentioned in the blog above are great to watch in full colour with no black areas no matter what angle you view the screen. Next, they don’t fall off the wall and smash if you don’t hook the bracket up proper or try and put them on them on a wall shelf. Those square box type crts or much more steady even if a bit heavier.

If Enigin (they’re an energy saving company, if you didn’t know) were to make crackers then I suspect they would be the finest crackers in the world. And I also suspect that the free gifts inside would have been a damn site better than the ones I used to get–

Click the link and scroll down to the bottom!

I speak about free gifts, OK, because amazingly, right, Enigin offer a free energy survey! I said free, as in all you need do is get in touch and the rest is history: job done! And it isn’t like there’s a catch and you’ll have all kinds of strange people ringing you up at all times of the day and night (I know people always say that but trust me, I have checked this out). Nope. In fact, you even get a free report showing you where you can cut costs and reduce your carbon footprint!

If Enigin (they’re an energy saving company, if you didn’t know) were to make crackers then I suspect they would be the finest crackers in the world. And I also suspect that the free gifts inside would have been a damn site better than the ones I used to get–

Click the link and scroll down to the bottom!

I speak about free gifts, OK, because amazingly, right, Enigin offer a free energy survey! I said free, as in all you need do is get in touch and the rest is history: job done! And it isn’t like there’s a catch and you’ll have all kinds of strange people ringing you up at all times of the day and night (I know people always say that but trust me, I have checked this out). Nope. In fact, you even get a free report showing you where you can cut costs and reduce your carbon footprint!

Among all the things that are great about life, two things stand out at this point in time (there’s only so much the mind can boggle about how amazing Canada is, or how great Grizzly bears are), after checking out this awesome link.

Those two things are 1) Lists and 2) Facts. And guess what? The above article has both these things. Oh yes! Both a small list and a large number of facts that you might wish to absorb if you’re well in to your energy saving! And I suggest you absorb them whether you’re really in to it or not. It’s all useful stuff, no matter how old you are or how much energy you consume (babies under one year old excluded).

I have to say, these facts affected me in a big way. I had no idea that by doing so little I could actually achieve so much. It got me thinking–What if everybody did as Enigin said…What would happen then?

We’d be save in about half an hour!

OK, I’m being over-optimistic. It might take a bit longer than half an hour. Not everyone is going to read the article and even of those who read it, it’s highly likely that some people won’t remember / bother to implement these energy-saving ideas. But a few will, and that’s enough positivity for me I think. Personally, I think that Enigin should be congratulated (if not given a medal) for educating the general public in the way that they are. It seems that every day they put some new article out there which strives to help us all get better at helping the environment.

Michelangelo had some good ideas, I’ll give him that, but I’m willing to bet that if the guys at Enigin had been around back in his day, the bearded stupidly prolific one would have got some stiff competition.

Firstly you should know two things: 1) I’ve never been a keen believer in approaching a cow at any angle without extensive body armour (cows might look placid, but one smack to the nether regions is enough to give you a life-long fear, trust me) and 2) I don’t exactly go overboard on fruit and nuts. In fact, I was a complete nightmare child, one of those ones who makes their mum’s life a misery by refusing to eat anything other than three things (two of them being sweets and chocolate).

So it takes a lot for me to consider both those things good. But I do, and you will too when you eventually do as you should and click that flipping link. So here it is: Enigin have done something cow-inspired that I actually endorse! That’s right, Enigin have filled a gap in the market that sorely needed filling…In other words, they are putting out human grazing kits, so instead of having to go and graze in a field and look as silly as a great big cow, you can do it from the comfort of your office, out of a box, like a civilized being. You can Graze in style!

But, like the Enigin people say, there is a serious side to all this, and that’s with the health benefits of eating fruit and nuts and not buying loads of chocolate. I don’t think I am converted yet, but who knows, in time…

The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and stuff like it, who really cares about it? A lot of you should care, but I know how it is, I really do…The only reports you can find on this are either in newspapers or science journals. Both are somehow confusing or convoluted, missing the bigger picture that inhabits the space between. In other words, you only tend to get one side of the argument, and it doesn’t even hit your brain before the disenchantment starts wearing away at you and you want to give up. In the papers it’s all a bit vague with no facts really substantiated, and in the science journals there are pages (and pages) of technical jargon that is difficult, sometimes impossible to break through and understand. It feels a lot like nobody wants you to actually know about these things, and of course, that means it’s easy to switch off–

But hang on a second. Wake up! Some people do want you to know as much as they do, and are happy to shed light on things which rarely surface with any clarity. Click the link and you’ll no more in an instant.

Having gone inside the complicated machine and researched it with considerable gusto and enthusiasm (as you would want anyone really interested in these things to do), Enigin give you clear and simple information straight from the horse’s mouth. You get all the facts about this stuff, and it’s all written in an easy to understand, concise way. How good is that!? A company that actually wants you to know what they do. I have to say that’s something pretty special.

Hiroshima is one of those books which has grown in to a phenomenon, but has also been largely forgotten about in recent years. As contemporary literature has branched off in a number of directions, veering away from the horrors of war and favoring things like ‘chick lit’, Hersey’s haunting masterpiece has remained a powerful and evocative portrayal of the worst that mankind can be capable of. It’s the kind of book which everyone knows, but hasn’t necessarily read. It is also the kind of book which, when done with, lingers on the mind, implanting itself—sticking like a horrid glue that won’t wash off.

Allow me to be blunt: the book is not entertaining and the book is not fun. That may seem like an obvious thing to say, but it runs deeper than that. Instead of reading like an account of real-life happenings, with the narrator omitting the most dreaded parts, it reads more from the perspective of a bird flitting between the rubble of a ruined city, and the dark shadows left by the flash of light scolding body shapes into the walls and pavement. That’s to say you never get away from the carnage. There is no breather. It may be a short book, but it feels long and painful. Seeing the disaster from every angle is sometimes too much to reasonably process and take in. The sense of doom is so overpowering that a single read-through seems insulting. The reader finds him / herself putting it down to allow thoughts to manipulate the images. The human curiosity, in other words, is far too entrenched with sinister curiosity to simply take the text at face value: we want to know more, and to delve deeper goes some way to satisfying our hearts and minds with the answers that the book fails to deliver.

So, I was speaking to my brother who works in finance and he thinks that there is massive return in buying stocks for bio diesel fuel. He is one of those types of people who is of the standpoint that America is trying to seize the world by taking over the Middle East. I must say I am getting pretty tired of the fact that everyone seems to have the same justification on this. Any thoughts?

Carbon emissions, unless you belong to a unique and extremely small minority of people—Society Of How Great Carbon Emissions Are, perhaps?—aren’t going to be the first topic of conversation to come up at a party. Why? Obvious. It doesn’t impress women much, it doesn’t impress men much, kids have better things to do with their time and the majority of adults would generally rather stick pins in their eyes than utter those two terrible, super un-fun words. Yes, we all pretend that we give a monkeys–some even pretend to give a whole field of monkeys–but where does the conversation go aside from “we’re producing too many carbon emissions and we must stop!” Answer: nowhere. At all. Most people drive through the stuff day in day out and carbon emissions are the last thing on their mind. So without blog posts like the following, where would we be? In a whole heap of even more awkward trouble is what. Even fewer people would care. Click this link and join Enigin in their campaign to make businesses aware of their energy consumption.

Web-sites like Enigin’s are making a whole new generation of internet users aware of how they can save energy. When we think ‘energy awareness’ we tend to think turning off lights and not using too much water in the kettle. While these small things are important, let’s not beat around the bush: unless more businesses start to play their part, we’ll need to stop drinking an awful lot of tea–

While Japan is ostensibly better known amongst pop culture enthusiasts for its anime, manga, and films, Japan also boasts a great tradition of novelists. Novelists who have managed to gain attention in the western media include Nobel prize winners Yasunari Kawabata, best known for his amazing tiny short stories and Kenzaburo Oe, known for his work based around his autistic son. Novelist Mushima also comes to mind. However, there are also some more popular authors making waves in both Japan and in the West, and when you’re done with your manga or anime for the day, you might want to consider checking them out. Haruki Murakami. Haruki Murakami (not to be confused with fellow novelist Ryu Murakami, who writes very different material) is probably Japan’s best known literary export. Murakami, once a jazz bar owner, decided to take up writing one day whilst being struck by inspiration watching a baseball match. Murakami’s most famous novel is probably Norwegian Wood, but other excellent books include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, and the recent After Dark. Hitomi Kanehara has a very different style to magical realist Murakami. Kanehara’s work is characterized by sharp, terrifying characters and plots that are violent and surreal. She is uncompromising in her writing, and gets right into the psyche of her characters—to quite eerie effect. At only age 25, Kanehara is an award-winning author best known for her books Snakes and Earrings and Autofictions. Natsuo Kirino is generally thought of as a crime fiction writer, and is considered one of the leading Japanese crime fiction authors in a genre that has recently experienced a boom. She is a prolific writer, with many novels and short stories to her name, and has also won a variety of well-regarded awards. Works to check out include Out, Grotesque, Real World, and What Remains. There are some other great things to check out on this enigin design site, seriously don’t miss it!