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

The archives for energy use.

  1. Carbon Reduction Commitment – keeping the momentum going

    Written by Clare Topping on 3rd Aug 2010.

    Trying to reduce energy usage can be a little demoralising – a bit like the proverbial painting of the Forth Road Bridge, there is no definite end point. However, a fresh injection of ideas is needed every now and again to get a few more converts and slowly change bad habits into good.

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  2. 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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  3. Greening our electricity

    Written by James Whinfrey on 16th Sep 2009.

    One of the most effortless ways to reduce our carbon footprint has to be switching to a ‘greener’ electricity plan. Is it cheating, or do these tariffs have a role to play?

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  4. 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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  5. Energy Management – Where does it go and what does it do?

    Written by Clare Topping on 24th Jun 2009.

    Before starting to reduce our energy consumption I first needed to find out how much we are using and where.

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  6. Energy Awareness at Work

    Written by Clare Topping on 21st Jun 2009.

    The Carbon Trust returned to raise our energy awareness – did it work?

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  7. The Verdict – The report from the Energy Audit

    Written by Clare Topping on 17th Jun 2009.

    There were a lot of suggestions in our energy audit report, some of which were valid, others were not. In this post I will give a quick summary of the areas covered.

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  8. Our Carbon Account

    Written by James Whinfrey on 15th May 2009.

    I’ve been using the Carbon Account: an online energy tracking and visualisation tool, for a year now. Is it any good?

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  9. My first attempt at a carbon footprint calculation was less than satisfactory.

    Written by Clare Topping on 6th Apr 2008.

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