April 20, 2009
On Saturday I presented my experience of being part of the Act on CO2 People Power campaign to a group of web development types who meet under the Multipack banner. The group have been meeting for about three years I think but recently have combined their informal meetings with a ‘Multipack Presents’ element. This month’s [...]
February 9, 2009
You may have noticed there are some new graphs on the right sidebar of this blog. You can now get live updates on my home electricity use and my carbon footprint (well my electricity-related carbon footprint anyway). Things have clearly moved on since I first got my Current Cost device in November and became part [...]
January 7, 2009
I’ve only just noticed that the video (shot by the PR company) of my house being inspected by the climate change minister and an energy boffin as part of the Act on CO2 campaign has made it online. Worth a look if only to see how boffin-like the energy boffin looks or if you’re a [...]
December 8, 2008
I thought I’d write up the process by which I connected up my Current Cost meter to my computer so that I can see my electricity usage data on a timeline and share the data with others. It’s a bit of dummies guide pulled together from the many websites that discuss Current Cost but have a [...]
November 27, 2008
Well today was a bit of a frenzy. The Act on CO2 People Power campaign was launched and I found myself being wheeled in front of the media for most of the day. It started gently with an interview down the phone with Radio WM’s Phil Upton. He even left a comment on my Facebook [...]
November 24, 2008
I now have one of these, a Current Cost thingy that measures how much electricity I’m wasting every time I forget to turn the lights off in the kitchen. It was sent to me as part of my impending positioning as some kind of ambassador for the government’s Act on CO2 campaign (that’ll teach me [...]