Always on my mind...

There is not a day that goes by that I do not make decisions that will effect my eco footprint. Lately I have chosen public transport over the car almost everyday and I have successfully reduced the amount of packaging I use when preparing my lunches for uni by using plastic containers and more fresh fruit (no packaging required there!) I very rarely take the lift at uni and I even asked Ben to buy a board game so that we don't just sit in front of our large TV for hours at night. (I never knew how much fun Scrabble is!)

I replaced the globes with energy effecient ones and with the weather slowly improving the heater does not get turned on for long periods of time anymore.YAY!!

I AM BACK!

My apologies for not making blog posts over the last 3 weeks life has been a little rocky.But I am back now!

Water Use...

from diary

INSIGHT

Im watching Insight on SBS  - very interesting discussion on climate change and whether or not it is real/exists.

The transcript on the Insight websight is very good reading (especially if you were like me and couldn't keep up with everything that was said during the debate).

The late Stephen Schneider was the Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University. An internationally recognised leader in research on climate change, he served as a consultant on the issue to every U.S. President from Nixon to Obama.

Professor David Karoly

Professor David Karoly is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability.

 Here are some comments left by members of the public on the website:

nico

from canberra act

2010-09-13 09:32:06

Stephen Schneider deserves a (posthumous) medal for his patience, dealing with this catalogue of familiar denialist talking points. The interesting sub-text was and is the ideological alignment of those who deny human influence on climate. Scientists tend not to show their political views. Conversely, those who hold strong ideological views tend to ignore the evidence of science if it is inconvenient.

Ori

from Melbourne

2010-09-10 14:44:24

Sceptics

The technology is out there for the Modern human to stop using fossil fuels....But as always the big guns who make the billions of dollars don't care..There are scientist over the last 100 years who had other ideas eg nicolas telsa. The carbon cycle is a natural cycle on earth but we are speeding a natural cycle by the burning of fossil fuels....plain simple LOGIC!!! Also the next frontier of science is quantum physics...Where there are answers to substanable energy sources.  ***************************************************************************** Weekly Water Use.... Insert from diary

SHOWERHEAD - WILL YOU STAY OR WILL YOU GO?

Here is a picture of our showerhead. I decided to measure how much water runs from the showerhead per minute to see if I need to get a new one. I placed my big bucket under the shower for one minute then measured how much water was in the bucket. To my surprise there was approximately 9 litres of water in the bucket! The showerhead passed the test!! 3 minute showers are still a must! And I am sticking to that so far. (However my little timer broke in the shower so I need to get a new one).

GLOBES

Unfortunately I have been very busy over the past week (I started second babysitting job on the weekend) so I haven't replaced the globes yet, aarrgghh.

Last night I whipped up a lovely roast pumkin and chicken salad. (One chicken breast used so not that bad for two). It was very impressive if I do say so myself.

Rubbish was equal weights this week. Recycling approx 2kgs and the same for general waste. Food scraps are still going into the compost bin!