An Ordinary Person’s Views on Living With Minimal Environmental Impact

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  1. Challenging Offshore Wind Power

    Written by James Whinfrey on 27th Apr 2010.

    The UK Government appears to be completely sold on the idea that offshore wind farms will solve our renewables woes, especially if they’re far enough out to sea, that’s not in anyone’s backyard. They’ve set themselves long term renewables targets that they can’t hope to meet, but that’s not the fault of the underlying technology. [...]

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  2. Compressor Survey

    Written by Clare Topping on 8th Apr 2010.

    In order to convince people that the compressor was not necessarily operating in the most efficient manner we paid to have a set of dataloggers connected to the compressors for a week.

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  3. Crikey – The Carbon Reduction Energy Efficiency Scheme is nearly upon us.

    Written by Clare Topping on 20th Mar 2010.

    It is nearly time for the start of the Government’s Carbon Reduction Scheme for large energy usage businesses – this is introductory blog post is the start of my diary as someone directly involved in a Company’s CRC efforts.

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  4. Switch Off Campaign

    Written by Clare Topping on 19th Feb 2010.

    Organizing a company-wide switch off campaign at the drop of the hat proved more complicated than originally anticipated.

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  5. Choosing a green electricity supplier

    Written by James Whinfrey on 26th Nov 2009.

    Last time I decided to switch to a greener electricity tariff, this time I’ll outline the process that lead me to choosing Good Energy.

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  6. Lighting – do we have too much?

    Written by Clare Topping on 10th Jul 2009.

    Recent site audits have suggested that we have too much lighting, this is a summary of what we currently have – there were a few surprising discoveries.

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  7. Estimating our energy source profile

    Written by James Whinfrey on 12th Jun 2009.

    Clare and I have decided to take a more focused look at the environmental impact of our household, so where do we start?

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  8. Crisis!

    Written by James Whinfrey on 29th Oct 2008.

    Our technology rich lives come with a price. This article was originally published on theTechnophile website and explores our options.

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