Water Aid Impact

Each September for the last five or six years, TYF have given free team building coaching to a group of a dozen volunteers on a fund raising programme for Water Aid called Business4Life. In return for free training to help develop their skills and their careers, they commit to raising £30,000 or so for Water Aid's programmes. It's good to know, as shown in this note from Vanessa Ashton's Christmas note, that it's worth it:

Because of generous donations, fundraising activities and time from all our supporters and, in particularly, from those in the South West and Wales like you, WaterAid has continued to provide clean water and sanitation to the world's poorest communities. This year alone we reached 940,000 people with clean water and 1.24 million people with sanitation. This is a fantastic achievement that would not have been possible without your help. Thank-you for everything you have done for WaterAid and for me this past year.

Top banana

Great little article the Guardian yesterday - CO2 for cycling - depends of course, on what you eat. Here's the impact of cycling a mile, powered by different food

Bananas 65g CO2e

Cereals with milk: 90g CO2e 

Bacon: 200g CO2e

Cheeseburgers: 260g CO2e

Air-freighted asparagus: 2800g CO2e

Fuelling on asparagus gives you a higher environmental impact than driving a Hummer. That doesn't make the Humvee good - just avoid green spears that have flown. So, surprise, surprise, when you're best off heading out on the road, load up on bananas and carbo from cereal.

PS

The 'e' part of CO2e is for 'equivalent' - taking into account the other greenhouse gases such as methane that are released in food production.