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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.
Anuradha Vittachi had a fascinating conversation with the Dalai Lama in 1994. He is emphatic about the centrality of his non-violent approach and is aware of the slow pace of progress in what he calls ‘the freedom struggle’. But what would he do if the people of Tibet chose a different path to independence?
A Word Pictures film for BBC Everyman by Anuradha Vittachi and Peter Armstrong. The story of Oxfam’s ‘Heineken Tours’ – reaching the parts of India that tourist tours never reach. It leads a group of Oxfam volunteers to rethink their whole understanding of what Oxfam’s aid programmes are really about.
An Easter reflection by Archbishop Desmond Tutu filmed in 1992 as liberation from apartheid was still underway. An independent Word Pictures production for BBC1 produced by Peter Armstrong and Anuradha Vittachi.
It was a very special day. On 16 July ’16, Nury, Mary, Peter and Anuradha held our joint anniversary party at Hedgerley Wood, welcoming all of you to celebrate 30 years of joyful and fulfilling marriage. Nury and Mary’s wedding Nury and Mary were married on 23rd August 1986, with a formal service at Our […]
Robert Runcie’s first year as Archbishop of Canterbury. BBC Everyman programme produced by Peter Armstrong in 1981.