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As you may remember, Mr Green replaced our lighting with LEDs and installed a couple of small solar panels to run them.
So far so good; we now enjoy free lighting most of the year.
We would love to …
Happy Birthday to Triodos Bank who celebrate their 15th anniversary of banking in the UK this year.
Set up 30 years ago in the Netherlands, Triodos marked the start of a revolution in finance - a …
As you’ll be aware, we try and keep our electricity consumption to a minimum here at Chez Green.
Unfortunately, old habits die hard and more recently we’ve found ourselves getting back into lazy habits. We’ve been …
Annie Leonard was in the UK recently and I had the opportunity to interview her. Creator of the “Story of Stuff” which has been viewed over 10 million times, Annie has written a book expanding …
As you know, Mr Green and I are great fans of LED lighting. We’ve installed LEDs for the downstairs of our home and they are running from a small solar panel.
I was excited to hear …
Hands up who turns off their PC when not in use?
I have to admit even though I always turn off my computer at night; it’s often left idle during the day.
‘Greentrac‘ is a software package …
Digital Invoicing are based at the prestigious York Eco Business Centre.
Digital Invoicing use ecologically sound hosting services from 1and1 Internet Ltd and have kitted out their office with sustainable furnishings and stationery. Now they want …
Most people by now have heard of Freecycle.
The Freecycle concept birthed by Deron Beal in 2003, is all about keeping things from landfill and protecting the environment while helping people out and saving money.
If you …
We take daily meter readings here at Chez Green and despite having an A rated cooker, our energy use from making meals is undoubtedly one of the biggest aspects of our energy usage.
There are many …
For the past 18 months I’ve been taking a close look at our electricity consumption and been totally stumped on how to reduce it further.
It got to the stage where I was taking daily readings …
