Distributing food, maybe one day in a flying car?

New York non-profit distributes leftover Yankee Stadium food
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British Space Agency tests 'crackpot' anti-gravity device
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Waste Not Want Not

Knowledge is a funny thing. You never know when you'll want to know seemingly useless information.

I've been making some new promos for the radio station. It involved gathering clips of music from tracks we play, and when I was finished I had a pile left over. So I thought "waste not want not", I'll use them for something else, and that gave me the idea for this blog.

Apparently "waste not want not" has been traced back to 1772, although the idea must have been around as long as we've been having ideas. The 1772 bit of information came from a Google search. I found what I was looking for easily, and was immediately grateful that someone had bothered to research and store that knowledge, but simultaneously amazed that someone could be bothered to research and store that knowledge. Which brings us back to my leftover clips of music.

I've stuck 25 of them together, how many artists & titles can you get? No prizes, just an exercise in retrieving some seemingly useless knowledge/memories you have stored in your head [or your friends' heads].

And if it helps ... there's one track by a made up band, one person appears on two tracks, one track is a live recording, and only one track includes John Lennon on backing vocals [he also co-wrote it].

All the tracks will be played over the weekend, so you can look at the text on your DAB radio or on the WebPlayer if you're stuck. I'll give you the answers on Monday along with the regular AUDIOBLOG.

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE CLIPS

So there you go ... a reminder to make the most of resources, a plug for the radio station, a trip down memory lane, exercise for your brain, something fun to do with friends, and a reason to lure you back to the Blog. Waste not want not.

Is fashion really rubbish?

It’s amazing what you can make out of rubbish!

I recently MC’d a fashion show that was all about clothes made from waste materials. It was a fascinating display of what can be done if you are willing to re-use and recycle.

The show was called Wear Not Waste and it was presented by Under Croydon as part of the Croydon Fashion Festival.

Some of the clothes were made from material off-cuts sewn together to make a complete item, others were crafted using plastic bags (the Umpalumpa Bin Dress designed by Lauren Adams and Keyya Attard) or old venetian blinds (the Zebra dress designed by Pamela Nyakato Musana and Raihana Campbell). One was even made from a dozen copies of The Financial Times (designed by Priscilla Enid Agoye).

Other dresses took their inspiration from the rain forests or our obsession with plastic surgery.

The head designer this year was Master Furse whose clever creations can be seen each weekend at Spitalfields market.

Even if you don’t think you have what it takes to create a dress out of plastic bags or venetian blinds, or perhaps even if you could you’re not brave enough to wear it, then take inspiration from some of the designers that updated old items to give them a fresh new fashion look; from gathering up a skirt and ballooning it (by Jessica Rotheram) to adding ribbons and bows (Clara Irving-Mayes) to dying your old faded linen dress and stitching on some sexy lace trim (by Gabriella Lamorella). Anything is possible!

Over a million tonnes of clothes end up in UK dustbins every year – most of these could be re-used by donating them to hostels or charity shops, or they could be revamped as was so beautifully demonstrated at the fashion show in Croydon or they could be recycled and turned into cleaning cloths and other items.

So, before you throw that old jacket out, take a moment to think if the dustbin really is the right place for it. Or better still – before you buy yet another new fashion piece, ask yourself if you might have something even better just waiting, in your wardrobe, for that second chance to shine.

Remember - “new” is just so yesterday – and yesterday with trimmings is just so “right now”.