Category: Energy & Environment
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Scarlett’s Energy Saving Mission
My youngest (5) came home from school this week with some homework relating to her school’s theme of educating the kids on ways to save energy. The premise was to involve the entire family in looking at devices that are left switched on in the home that might be power hungry. I jumped on this…
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UK Smart Meter Data Access and Privacy without the hype
There’s been a fair bit of press recently on the privacy issues surrounding the UK’s smart meter roll-out – currently in its foundation stage (figuring out how it’s actually going to work) before the official start of the roll out in 2014 – some of it is balanced, some of it less so. The coverage…
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Peak or no Peak?
I have not posted about peak oil for a long while, mainly because if people get it, they get it, and if they don’t, or won’t, then they are almost certainly not interested. Either way there’s no point constantly banging a drum. Well, this week a few articles surfaced that do warrant a further look.…
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Unicivilisation Festival – Edited Highlights
Over the recent bank holiday weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the Dark Mountain Project‘s Uncivilisation festival in Llangollen, Wales. I had a really great time and I met lots of interesting and friendly people who had all come together to discuss options for – as the website puts it – “a challenging and…