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Last year Anuradha and I travelled 83,000 air miles, causing a total emission of CO2 of 24 tonnes. Another wake-up call. Only half a ton was for holiday travel, which I guess is reasonable in the light of our new targets. We could justify the 23 and a half tonnes that we travelled for OneWorld […]
Given that the car does 5,000 miles a year on average and the scooter mileage is around 500, we can finally calculate our current total emissions (hold breath)… And the answer is: 21.8 tonnes of CO2 a year. This comes 89% from home energy and 11% from transport. And we have to consider that: this […]
The reason for doing all this was reinforced today when I read an application Anuradha is preparing to fund a mass blog on this subject under the OneWorld banner. She writes: “I had been writing about Climate Change with a generalised anxiety since 1980 – but, like many anti-poverty activists, I considered it ‘an environmental […]
Hedgerley Wood built in the 1930s (photograph by Tom Dyson)
First real numbers look horrifying: yearly use of heating oil (hot water, heating and pool) was 6245 litres yearly use of electricity (lights and gadgets) was 20,700 kWhs This computes to CO2 emisions of: oil = 19,476 kgs of CO2 per year electricity = 9,192 kgs of CO2 per year Giving a total of 28,668 […]
I found a good carbon calculator at the Safe Climate site. I won’t be able to get our own totals until I’m back home with the utility bills, but it does give some of the key conversion ratios: heating oil – multiply gallons of oil by 11.81 to get kgs of CO2 petrol – multiply […]
I started at the British Wind Energy Association – www.bwea.com and supplemented this with some US-based information from Wind Energy Weekly – www.awea.org. The basic wind story looks pretty promising. If an average house uses around 10,000 kWh a year, then a 5 – 15 kW turbine can made a sigficant contribution to this. A […]
Just found this interesting blog from Alan Durning. He seems to have very similar preoccupations but is already very advanced in the solutions.
Before we can do any of the maths on how much energy we are using at the moment, I need to understand the best units to work in. Luckily my daughter, Devi, and son in law, Matthew, are on hand to make up for the physics lessons I failed to follow at school. It seems […]
Colombo seems to be a good place for making resolutions. Twenty years ago I was here and decided to become a vegetarian after reading Gandhi. Now I’m inspired by Anuradha’s idea for a new way to campaign on climate change at OneWorld: seeing it as a commitment to the coming generations. That led us to […]
Arne Fjørtoft in conversation with Anuradha Vittachi on a life that ranges from TV reporter to Norwegian Green party Chair, and from Sri Lankan environmentalist to founder of Worldview International.
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne in conversation with Anuradha Vittachi. Affectionaly know as Ari, he is the inspiring founder and leader of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka. It’s a non-violent spiritual movement of local development working in more than half the villages in Sri Lanka. It’s goal is a “no poverty, no affluence society”. […]
Bunker Roy talks to Anuradha Vittachi about a life of social activism and the founding of the Barefoot College.
The inspiring story of Maria Elena Moyano’s fight for women’s rights in Lima Peru – and the fate she met at the hands of the Shining Path guerrillas.
Why do poor people stay poor? This is one clear answer in a great animation hand-made by children in a school in Moldavia in the 1990s. This version was created by Word Pictures for a film on people power called We the People.