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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: not3bad on February 06, 2013, 01:50:56 PM
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As a Greenie I consider this good news:
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3066773,00.html
I think it also shows a positive aspect of the job that everyone's favourite punch bag Paul Faulkner is doing as far as off field matters go.
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I would have hoped he had bigger things to worry about.
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Well thats all right then as long as we have achieved carbon neutral status!
Lets wave our flags with pride to celebrate such an achievement.
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When we look back on 2013, this is what I'll remember.
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will it help keep us in the Prem ?
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will it help keep us in the Prem ?
No but im sure randy will get a gleaming certificate to hang on the walls of lerner towers - a wonderful moment in his reign.
Wouldnt surprise me if it was added to our honours list.
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I see they are pleased that they have reduced the amount of traffic around Villa Park on matchdays. I guess they will be over the moon at next seasons attendances when we drop into the championship. A cunning plan, well done all.......
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If we were doing well, this would be applauded, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, it's good news. Anyway, if we get rid of some more rubbish it will surely be better!! ;-)
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Pride of place next to the Intertoto.
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It would have been progress if Villa Park had been goal neutral this season.
As far as I'm concerned they could have chimneys pumping out CO2 all around the ground if it meant the team did better.
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They'll be making more away trips next season though, hope they factored that in.
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Biggest achievement since the Peace Cup
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They'll be making more away trips next season though, hope they factored that in.
I don't think we'll be qualifying for the Europa Risso. I applaud your optimism though.
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will it help keep us in the Prem ?
No but im sure randy will get a gleaming certificate to hang on the walls of lerner towers - a wonderful moment in his reign.
Wouldnt surprise me if it was added to our honours list.
calm it ...were not Blosers....;)
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This is all to do with tax breaks And carbon credits
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And we thought that Lerner's lack of visits to Villa Park were because he couldn't give a shite any more. It turns out that he was just saving the planet by not using his private jet as much, the loveable old tree-hugger.
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Presumably the Holte End farter didn't renew last year.
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I think this calls for another star on the badge.
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How dare you write anything here without whinging about the certainty of us getting relegated!. Shame on you.
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I'm going to get that scarf modified - Proud History, Carbon Neutral Future.
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This award might help explain our performance against Bradford.
Excessive waving of flags would have warmed up the surrounding air in turn effecting climate change. Well done everybody.
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what a load of fucking shit
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what a load of fucking shit
An unfortunate choice of expression given the deleterious effects of defecation on mother earth.
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With the extra money we save by being carbon neutral we should use it buy some players in January so we can.......Oh fuck
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With the extra money we save by being carbon neutral we should use it buy some players in January so we can.......Oh fuck
I imagine it costs us money. For every light left on, they'll buy some carbon credits from a company planting trees in Bangladesh or similar.
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Here's an outline of some of the club initiatives that have made a major impact on our environmental performance:
- We operate a comprehensive waste management programme, and are currently recycling 70 per cent of waste.
- We engage in responsible printing, with 98 per cent of our printed materials produced by a member of the Forest Stewardship Council.
- Our electricity consumption has been decreasing for the past nine years, with heating, lighting and electrical equipment remotely controlled.
- Up to 85 per cent of our food is sourced from the five counties surrounding the West Midlands, helping us to win the Green Restaurant Award (Purchasing) last year.
- We have a structured travel plan, aimed at significantly reducing the number of cars visiting Villa Park.
- Water-saving taps have meant our water consumption has fallen over the past three years.
.... which is another way of saying they've spent the last few years driving supporters away!
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This is good news. Well done to all concerned.
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- We have a structured travel plan, aimed at significantly reducing the number of cars visiting Villa Park.
It all makes sense now!!
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We could have gotten carbon neutral status by just getting rid of Stephen Ireland.
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I might start offsetting my journeys to Villa Park, you know, so that I'm doing my bit
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I'm amazed. I go past VP on the Aston Expressway at 7 every morning and every light seems to be on.
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In the shit up to our neck and lets come out with what the supporters really want to hear, were carbon positive but goal difference negative, well done all.
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No doubt the Chinese and Indian industrial giants will be sleeping a bit easier in their beds tonight knowing that all the crap their plants are belching out on a daily basis making all the cheap goods we all consume is being off set by our great football club. Gee thanks for that Paul I feel so much better and the pain of relegation will be eased throughout the summer every time I think about this.
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They say
"The plan is to cut energy use, reduce waste and minimise greenhouse gas emissions in the stadium"
I presume then that this means telling the players to run less during matches and jump even less at corners and set pieces, execute Stephen Ireland and tell us all to stop farting during the game whilst at the same time removing all the toilet pans in the gents thus preventing anybody from taking a dump?
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Where are Pukka pies produced ? I'm sure they're not local
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Where are Pukka pies produced ? I'm sure they're not local
Leicestershire.
Richard Dunne has a stash of 500 flown in every day.
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This was announced on the AVFC Official Bookface page earlier today & was met with the vitriol & ridicule it deserved.
Just what kind of marketing cretin thinks any supporter is interested in this in our current predicament? Oh yes Paul Faulkner. Yes well done Villa, I really mean that but save it for some sort of end of year report on sustainabilty.
Personally I suggest Mr Faulkner gets his arse out on the streets of Aston on Sunday & asks fans whether they are interested in carbon neutralness or a couple of defenders? Maybe he'd get in touch with the fans & understand what they would really like to be marketed at them, there's a thought.
That said a few hours later the marketing genius's removed this joyous news.
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This was announced on the AVFC Official Bookface page earlier today & was met with the vitriol & ridicule it deserved.
Just what kind of marketing cretin thinks any supporter is interested in this in our current predicament? Oh yes Paul Faulkner. Yes well done Villa, I really mean that but save it for some sort of end of year report on sustainabilty.
Personally I suggest Mr Faulkner gets his arse out on the streets of Aston on Sunday & asks fans whether they are interested in carbon neutralness or a couple of defenders? Maybe he'd get in touch with the fans & understand what they would really like to be marketed at them, there's a thought.
That said a few hours later the marketing genius's removed this joyous news.
I really dont think he would get out alive
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It is good news and reflects well on the club, but it isn't what most fans see as our top priority.
If we could get back to being goals neutral or even goals positive that would be lovely.
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Can somebody please tell Paul Faulkner he is running a football club.
The wanker is really starting to piss me off.
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Can somebody please tell Paul Faulkner he is running a football club.
The wanker is really starting to piss me off.
Only starting? Ive felt like that for a long time about him.
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Yes, let's not tell anyone about any of the good things that are happening because our results are shit.
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Fair point Dummond, but most fans only hear from the Ginger Prince about stuff they're not bothered about let's be honest. Where was he last week? The silence from his office was defeaning then.
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It is good to see Aston Villa is doing their bit for environment. I wonder do they use renewenable energy for power ie solar energy with solar panels. Well Done Paul. But this still doesn't solve our football problems.
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I don't think it's supposed to.
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LED Floodlights ? Aren't there more night games in The Championship
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I agree with all the above. What's the website thinking running with this tripe rather than an alternative 'we're fucking relegated/Faulkner is a ******' headline?
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Yes, let's not tell anyone about any of the good things that are happening because our results are shit.
That's because when things are as shit as they are it's hard to see any good,still our carbon footprint will be the envy of the Championship I'm sure
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Randy really is a fucktard. He doesn't seem to care about throwing his jet around Europe!
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The amount of methane released on the Holte End each Boxing Day is enough to bust a hole in the ozone layer the size of... the size of Wales
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Yes, let's not tell anyone about any of the good things that are happening because our results are shit.
Indeed the FA award for carbon neutral footballing clubs competition along with best set of accounts competition is where we compete now, pardon my forgetfulness, there was me thinking we competed in the playing football the winningest competition.
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We seem to be top of every fucking table except the one that matters most. Best pitch, best programme, best pie...Shame we are so shit at the football bit really.
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I reckon if you started a thread about ants or Algeria or bras it would still turn into a whinge about Lambert or Lerner within 3 posts. The arguments are all so well rehearsed we don't need to be reminded about them on every single bloody thread. How about leaving the odd one for other thoughts to be posted?
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We seem to be top of every fucking table except the one that matters most. Best pitch, best programme, best pie...Shame we are so shit at the football bit really.
Haha. Made me smile
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Faulkner And Lerner say very little these days, so i'm guessing the sum reduction in their verbal shite helps.
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Leaving the state of the team and our position on the verge of relegation to one side for a moment...
This is a good PR story for the club, and it is good news for anyone with more than a passing interest in the environment.
My company is a holder of the Carbon Trust Standard, which means that we have to reduce our carbon footprint year on year.
It does mean allot of extra work and we have to look carefully at where we source raw materials etc... but in terms of the environment we recycle our wood waste on site, burn it and create heating for the factory, offices and water. We also store all the rain water on site for use in the toilets, these are just part of the operations we do.
We also have products that have a carbon rebalance donation attached, this donation goes toward helping poor families, elderly people to better insulate there homes, reducing there energy usage and cost and thus reducing the carbon emissions.
Anything that can be done to provide a better future for our children and grand children should be applauded.
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Hopefully many other institutions, football and otherwise, will be well on the way to achieving this status. As Tesco's once said "every little helps".
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Leaving the state of the team and our position on the verge of relegation to one side for a moment...
This is a good PR story for the club, and it is good news for anyone with more than a passing interest in the environment.
My company is a holder of the Carbon Trust Standard, which means that we have to reduce our carbon footprint year on year.
It does mean allot of extra work and we have to look carefully at where we source raw materials etc... but in terms of the environment we recycle our wood waste on site, burn it and create heating for the factory, offices and water. We also store all the rain water on site for use in the toilets, these are just part of the operations we do.
We also have products that have a carbon rebalance donation attached, this donation goes toward helping poor families, elderly people to better insulate there homes, reducing there energy usage and cost and thus reducing the carbon emissions.
Anything that can be done to provide a better future for our children and grand children should be applauded.
but is it a future worth having if Villa have been relegated? :D
obvious joke aside I really can't believe so many people are being negative about this, it's as if some of you believe that faulkner was given a choice between being carbon neutral or being a decent side. It all comes back to the "we're not winning so everything at the club is shit" mentality that seems to have developed in the last couple of months.
This is a very positive story, at a time when there are a lot of negatives around the club, it's absolutely right for the club to publicise this, and be very pleased with themselves.
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I remember a story puffed by Janet Street Porter when she was editor of The Independent On Sunday that she'd made the business `carbon neutral'.
How the hell a business can be carbon neutral when its only product is a kilogramme of disposable newsprint, I don't know. Maybe she'd bought a few energy-saving lightbulbs or something.
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I remember a story puffed by Janet Street Porter when she was editor of The Independent On Sunday that she'd made the business `carbon neutral'.
How the hell a business can be carbon neutral when its only product is a kilogramme of disposable newsprint, I don't know. Maybe she'd bought a few energy-saving lightbulbs or something.
You have to look at the whole bisiness to generate its carbon footprint, this would include:
Energy
Travel [work travel and the travel of workers to and from work]
Wastage generated
Raw materials [Each would have its own carbon footprint dependant on the same catagories, energy, travel etc...]
Delivery costs [fuel, what type is used and how much]
The Carbon footprint of a business is greater than might be first thought
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I remember a story puffed by Janet Street Porter when she was editor of The Independent On Sunday that she'd made the business `carbon neutral'.
How the hell a business can be carbon neutral when its only product is a kilogramme of disposable newsprint, I don't know. Maybe she'd bought a few energy-saving lightbulbs or something.
Manual toothbrush innit.
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I work in "the greenest building in Canary Wharf", whatever that means. Everyone seems to be very pleased about it though
Although I'd happily set fire to a pile of old tyres and shitty nappies in exchange for 3 points on Sundee.
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I work in |"the greenest building in Canary Wharf", whatever that means. Everyone seems to be very pleased about it though
Although I'd happily set fire to a pile of old tyres and shitty nappies in exchange for 3 ponts on Sundee.
In Kansas they call that a tarrr farrr.
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I couldn't give a shit about the football myself and want the match on Sunday to be cancelled so we can plant trees all over the pitch as a green hippy love statement. I mean we've got two football teams in Birmingham, do we really need that many? It's just greedy.
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I remember a former boss of mine telling me in gushing terms how he had made both his businesses carbon neutral and how important it was to do the little things for the environment yada yada.
He then suggested we go out and grab a sandwich (from one of the shops located about a 3 minute walk away).
I assumed we'd walk, but he pointed at the "rain" (I say "rain", but it hardly qualified, tiny spots of water every now and then), said "fuck that, we'll take the car" and insisted we drive there in his gas guzzling Aston Martin.
"The little things add up", he said. Hmmm.
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The thing is it is better that we do this than not, and for what it is worth it is better than being tagged as the opposite. Still, it's all drowned out by the noise of our current league position and plight which is understandable. The club has done a number of very good things behind the scenes that should be spoken about and applauded, but at the end of the day the number 1,2,3....priority is first team football.
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It is good to see Aston Villa is doing their bit for environment. I wonder do they use renewenable energy for power ie solar energy with solar panels. Well Done Paul. But this still doesn't solve our football problems.
The Famous AV Wind Turbines
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I sit very near the sustainability team at our place. Have to say, they really get on my tits.
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I sit very near the sustainability team at our place. Have to say, they really get on my tits.
Punch them in the head as you walk past. `sustain this, motherf***er''
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I have heard the players not getting win bonuses has paid for this.
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damon watching his family guy box set before travelling to some shitty location for the snow report on ITN.
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The amount of time and money invested in this project should have been used on the reason this business is here, the football.
It probably cost less than half a week's wages of one of our players to do it. Still, that could have helped to sign a player, couldn't it?
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New chant? Paul Lambert's Carbon Neutral Army
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We'll soon fuck this up by setting fire to everything in the ground when we go down.
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I may not understand this fully, but is this where our transfer budget went - Randy buying carbon credits?
Guess its expensive balancing your carbon footprint when you heat a lawn in winter and fly your jet around picking up managers.
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will it help keep us in the Prem ?
This says it all for me.
While it's admirable that the club have achieved this (although I hadn't noticed solar panels in the roof of the stands, or the water-saving taps in the Holte End khazis) in the grand scheme of things its not that big a deal compared with maintaining Premier League status.
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New chant? Paul Lambert's Carbon Neutral Army
Clappy emoticon thingy
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I may not understand this fully, but is this where our transfer budget went - Randy buying carbon credits?
Crikey.
Have a think about it. Do you really think that is likely? Really?
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in the grand scheme of things its not that big a deal compared with maintaining Premier League status.
That supposes that anybody had may have entertained the notion that it was.
I mean, what do you think Villa are, some sort of football team?
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I may not understand this fully, but is this where our transfer budget went - Randy buying carbon credits?
Crikey.
Have a think about it. Do you really think that is likely? Really?
chuckle followed by FFS
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in the grand scheme of things its not that big a deal compared with maintaining Premier League status.
That supposes that anybody may have entertained the notion that it was.
I mean, what do you think Villa are, some sort of football team?
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I may not understand this fully, but is this where our transfer budget went - Randy buying carbon credits?
Crikey.
Have a think about it. Do you really think that is likely? Really?
It wasn't meant to be serious!
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How is VP EVER going to be carbon neutral with the bile and vitriol spouted by some sections of our "support" ?
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It was a bit of a PR pas faux - but then again - they are PR people.
Goal difference neutral
Miserable git neutral
That's what I'd like.