July 19, 2008 at 9:49 am (Buy Nothing New)
Tags: Buy Nothing New, eco-driving, meat reducing, plastic, veggie box, Water Saving
Well we told you what we were doing before we started the project: About Us Sean reminded me that maybe I should write about what we have done so far on the project, from the small to the slightly less small!
- Eco-Driving
Sounds strange, but it is re-learning the way you drive to be more efficient and save fuel/CO2. Can be summed up as smoothly changing gear way early, anticipating the need to brake, so slowing down on the gears and keeping the revs below 2 (for a diesel, 2.5 for petrol). Our car seems to have an amazing ability to glide around in 5th gear without any acceleration. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 18, 2008 at 9:24 pm (Buy Nothing New)
Tags: Climate Camp, Climate change, Kingsnorth Power Station, Local Food, Water Saving
It’s Friday, hurrah. Have I bought anything new….weeell that depends on definitions: Lunches over the week (about £15), a haircut (£7.50), a tank of diesel (£70!!!) Jeez. I must get hold of some biodiesel soon. Otherwise I think that’s it.
Yesterday I was in Chatham giving a short presentation on climate change. We’re helping out the World Development Movement on the campaign against the replacement coal fire power station at Kingsnorth (that’s Kingsnorth on the Hoo peninsula, not the village just south of Ashford). I’m humming and harring about going to the climate camp in a couple of weeks. CPRE won’t be involved directly, but I’d be interested in going along for a day. Though, if I get locked up without charge for 42 days, Tammy won’t be happy.
Today, I had a meeting with a project manager involved in the new Making Local Food Work campaign. It’s a 5-year project funded by the Lottery and I think it’s going to be brilliant.
Right, today’s top tip! Tammy had the great idea of using one our spare (clean) nappy buckets to collect “warm-up water” from the shower. Our shower is on the far side of the house from the hot water tank so there is quite a long dead leg of cold water that has to come out first. It’s not a total waste if it goes to the drain because it just passes through our septic tank and irrigates our lawn. ANYWAY, the warm up water fills about a 1/3 of the bucket, which is quite a lot of water over the year given the number of showers we take. So far we’re using the water on pot plants, topping up the rainwater tank and I suppose we could use it for flushing the toilet.
- Sean
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