Diogo Vasconcelos on Energy Empowerment
A fascinating conversation about how we can all become empowered rather than passive energy users in the fight against climate change. Very sadly Diogo died few years after this recording.
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Dumping Ecotricity
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminIt seems that this issue has come out because companies have only recently been required to publish the fuel mix. And it’s going to shock a lot of people. I had an authoritative response from someone in the business (who had better not be named): “I am not surprised at this. Ecotricity is run by […]
A new calculator and a surprise
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminI’ve just got round to signing up to Torchbox’s carbon calculator – The Carbon Account. It’s quite the best I’ve used for a number of reasons. It logs detailed information about your particular vehicles and your energy supplier, looks up the latest information on them and presents your progress to reducing your carbon footprint in […]
glorious trees
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminAn interesting factoid from Green Futures. I was amazed when I first read it and did some quick calculations. We are lucky enough to have around 350 mature trees (mostly beech as it happens) in our plot here at Hedgerley. Some are growing quite close together, […]
More solar stats
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminI’ve been trying to get away from theoretical figures to see what impact PV on our roof could actually have. I measured our electricity use for the last 24 hours. With seven of us here, the washing machine used a lot and a certain amount of heating as the day was colder, I expected the […]
Time for Mr MacGregor
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminLast year our attempts to grow more of our food were neatly nipped in the bud by Peter Rabbit. So now I’ve decided the only way is to put up anti-rabbit and anti-deer fencing. Hopefully it will be effective is protecting the seedlings I’ve just put in. Plus the marigolds – the result of half-remembered […]
Eco Exhibition
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminWe went for the day with Devi, Matthew and Rosa to the Green Homes Show in Builth Wells. They were interested in wood-chip boilers, but were not altogether convinced. I focused on the wind turbine stand by nextgenerationturbines.com. The one they were displaying looked pretty big to me. In fact it was only 1.8 kW, […]
Testing for PV
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminAfter the disappointments about finding a place for a turbine with enough wind, I’ve starting thinking about solar again. One way or another I am determined to start making our own electricity to balance out the amount used by the heat pump and all our media work. I had thought that the roof was too […]
Stove Progress
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminThere were lots of comments on the blog when we first considered replacing our solid fuel aga with a Clearview stove and got the story from Walkers shop in Burford. Since then we’ve sold the Aga and put in a ground heat pump. This does a great job at heating the water and providing background […]
Ex Presidential Overview
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminAt the Sheldonian theatre in Oxford last Thursday 21st June 2007 former US President Jimmy Carter spoke movingly and candidly about his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and his 30- year involvement with the issue from the inside. He was particularly good in response to questions from the audience. The lecture is introduced by […]
Could be the car?
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminThe problem with the G-Wiz seemed to me to be that you couldn’t carry much. Same with the Electrica with a promised range of 70 miles, using Lithium batteries (but at £12K) We use the scooter for personal journeys, but need something for local shopping and taking stuff to the dump. So I really like […]
One-stop Eco Shopping
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminToday I went down to a very significant development in our village, Chinnor near Oxford. A new company called Eco-St has opened what seems like a really exciting space to display and sell a very wide range of eco-products, from energy saving to water harvesting. I met Dianne Brackley, who is the buyer responsible for […]
OneClimate Island
/in Education, Gathering, Green Living, OneClimate, Speaking, UN Climate COP's/by adminAt OneWorld we were early adopters of Second Life – not for the worlds we could build, but for education on climate change and to provide a virtual meeting place that would avoid the carbon costs of travel. To provide all the necessary facilities we built OneClimate Island. For it’s time it was a considerable […]
Open Knowledge Network
/in Uncategorised/by adminThe Open Knowledge Network was an ambitious project launched by OneWorld in 2002. It was before mobile phones were widely available and offered what was in effect a social network between villages in India and Africa. it had some startling successes in communicating life-saving information – for example to fishermen at sea, or, in one […]
Hyper local food
/in Greening of Hedgerley/by adminDisappointingly our local organic fruit and veg company in Thame has closed down. Apparently there just wasn’t enough demand for their box delivery service. Such a pity – I’m sure demand will increase as the food miles message reaches these parts. So it’s back to the vegetable patch with some great help from the family. […]