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Walkit.com — The urban walking route planner

Walkit.com — The urban walking route planner
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Green Vegans – Welcome Event - What's On - Greater Manchester's CityLife Sneak Preview: Inside new French restaurant Cote Brasserie Pictures and sneak preview inside the city's latest new £1mn restaurant, Cote Brasserie on St Mary's Street 20 free attractions in London Who cares if London's hotels and restaurants tend to be on the expensive side? No city in the world has more free stuff to do. In addition to world-class museums without a ticket admission, you get the parks, canal walks, super markets (Portobello Road Market at Notting Hill Gate, Camden Market at Chalk Farm Rd, wonderful Columbia Road Flower Market at Gosset St in East London etc) and maybe some royal-spotting, and you can fill a life. London, thank you! Here's the mere start of the free list: 1. Around, more or less, since the 13th century, the Borough Market is stuffed with food-lovers and all you need for a memorable grab-and-go breakfast or lunch. 2. Hidden under Waterloo Bridge, the institute features four cinemas (not free) and the fun Mediatheque, where you can peruse DTV/film archives and watch for free. 3. Unreal; one of London's top attractions, and absolutely free. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Those Victorians sure liked to 'c & c' (collect and catalogue). 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Argos.co.uk for Toys, Home Furnishings, Personal Care & more A vegetarian diet is better for the environment | The Vegetarian Society Eating a vegetarian diet is one of the best things you can do to stop climate change – it’s also delicious and loads of fun! The population is set to rise to over 9 billion by 20501, we are consuming the planet’s natural resources faster than the Earth can replenish them. By 2050 we’ll need the equivalent of three planets resources2 to meet our current needs. A vegetarian diet uses less water. It takes far less water to produce plant protein than meat. Look for these trademarks to make your shopping easier References [1] “After adjustment for sex and age, an average 2,000 kcal high meat diet had 2.5 times as many GHG emissions than an average 2,000 kcal vegan diet.” Scarborough, P., Appleby, P.N., Mizdrak, A. et al. [2] “poultry emerges as the least water intensive, with between 2,390 and 3,900 litres of embedded water in each kg food” calculation based on figures published in EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Science and Technology Options

The Manchizzle: Introducing: The Real Story Hooray! I'm delighted to be able to share the details about Openstories' new project, The Real Story. So here's the deal: The Real Story is a celebration of creative nonfiction. Not that there’s anything wrong with fiction. We’re kicking things off this summer with a writing competition. The best submissions will be published alongside specially commissioned photographic portraits of the writers on a new website to be launched in October at the Manchester Literature Festival 2011, and some of the winning writers will be asked to read their pieces live during the festival. To enter, email your submission as a double-spaced Word document to info@openstories.org with “Real Story submission” in the subject line. If you’d like to learn more about using your own experiences as the basis for nonfiction writing, we’re holding a primer workshop, Life Writing Bootcamp, at Manchester City Library on Saturday July 30 from 11am to 4pm, with writer and Rainy City Stories editor Kate Feld.

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