Posts Tagged ‘green’
hurry, hurry …
Seen this? – Airline asks passengers to pee before flying to save energy. It’s a trial and seems a little far fetched – but doesn’t it all count in the end – lighter passengers, less fuel, less carbon emissions?
I had a million titles for this post- but seeing as it’s all to do [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: future, green, happiness, sustainability, waste
A is for argon
… this really cool gas that is in our double glazed windows. Argon helps greatly with thermal insulation.
I have high hopes for this ‘noble gas’ – (an odourless, colourless gas with little chemical reactivity). Equally cool and interesting is that argon is used for preservation- The US Declaration of Independence is stored in an argon-filled [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: green, house
What rhymes with roof?
The roof is up! It all happened in a couple of days.
On Thursday morning as we were walking past at sunrise we noticed the scaffolding was up for the roof and we had gutters (well we saw all this the afternoon before, but I like the sunrise photo better)…
Friday afternoon and the roof is up! We [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Tags: building, green, house
Vampire energy
Sometimes you just need a hook, a new way of looking at the same issue.
I think we all know about the wasted energy of all of our electrical products, even when we are not using them, but I rather like the notion of Vampire Energy and the following video.
Kx
thanks trib for this [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: green, sustainability
rubbish, oceans of it
Stories about a rubbish pile floating around the Pacific have been around for a little while.
This story from the Independent from February this year, and this story about the island of rubbish, a ‘plastic soup’ being bigger than the US in size. Pretty scary to think that there is this floating mass of rubbish just out there? [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: green, waste
