Earth Notes: Saving The Planet @Home

Site updated 2025-04-20 15:33 GMT.
Be a defossilisation hero, starting at home!

Want to do your bit at home to improve your quality of life, save money, cut down on waste and carbon pollution, and get the planet back how it used to be?

Did you know that the majority of your neighbours are undertaking energy saving actions every day? That is also one of the most powerful messages to encourage people to save.

This site is mainly about the practical steps that I have taken to make my own life (and that of my family) a little better and lower-carbon. Many of them are actions that you could take too...

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Featured: Low Carbon Family Holidays (easyread frugal)

Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck

Flying is not bad in and of itself if it were not for the carbon footprint. It's a safe and moderately* efficient way to shift a human body wherever it is going per mile. Indeed a fully-loaded small car is comparable. You would not dream of trying to drive to a holiday in Australia in a Mini even if it were possible. And most people would not regard a road-trip across a continent with small children as much fun either. The enemy is not the plane, it is the distance. The jumbo jet encourages us to take far longer trips than we otherwise would, and thus have a much larger footprint than necessary. For example, we regularly take the train in summer to the south of France, at reasonable lick.

Random: Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) (podcast)

The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

At 16WW over 14 days from 2025-03-31 to 2025-04-14: electricity import 0.4kWh/d (net -7.4kWh/d).
At 16WW over 371 days from 2024-04-08 to 2025-04-14: electricity import 4.2kWh/d (net 0.3kWh/d), gas consumption 0.3kWh/d.

Net utility (electricity) CO2 emitted this year over first 3 months: 126kg

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LIVE LIVE GB Grid Carbon Intensity (mobile), live grid-tie PV generation and off-grid PV electrical system stats, heat battery top-up control.

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Yearly Electricity and Gas (ie heat and light) Carbon Footprint

Things That We've Done

We've crunched our carbon footprint. We've become a SuperHome. We've pondered other changes that we might make. But most of all there's been quite a lot of fun learning. Maybe it is my engineering mindset, but I have made a hobby out of conservation and meter watching. I have had fun out of 'tuning' life a little. The rest of my family humours me!

See a full list of articles under search at the top of the page, and here's some actions to start with that we took...

Things That You Can Do

Effective changes that can be made at home are based on lowering energy/resource demand...

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