Apparently, most plastic Christmas trees end up in the garbage before their fifth year. This makes them a very poor substitute, ecologically-speaking, for real Christmas trees. It needs to be used for at least 12 years to break even with the average real Christmas tree, from a carbon footprint perspective (3.5kg per real tree). One…
Author: Adam Hardy
Zoologist at heart. Environmentalist by necessity. Stage hand, financial trader, secretary, card payments designer, software developer, fossil fuel big data warehouse consultant. Amateur psychologist. Now climate change salvage engineer.
From Climate Vague to Climate Guru in 3 Hours, the Fun Way
To become a climate guru, you could read through the 5,000 page report from the UN IPCC, or you can take part in a Climate Fresk workshop, a collaborative, interactive game-based event which teaches you about the science of climate change based on that IPCC 6th assessment review. ♻️ ⚡ 🌳 🌡️ 🌍 🍴 🏙️…
Cost of Living & CO2 Workshop Nov 19th
🌨️ 🎰 Take action on the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis in one go. 🌍 Come and find out about what we can do to deal with the situation about money, energy and the climate Saving energy helps the climate, and your cost of living ⚡ Pick up tips about how to…
Finding the right type of Workshop
Engaging people is difficult. Everyone is so busy, or so uninterested, or so cynical. Just laying out the information and expecting people to pick up on it hasn’t been working to date so we’re investigating more interactive ways of generating participation. Islington Clean Air Parents ran a “public assembly” last month to see if they…
Carbon Allowances
Carbon allowances are fair and no-one is talking about them when they are probably the best approach to climate change. Why not?
How to work out what any domestic appliance costs to run
There are two different types of appliance when it comes to working out energy use – the appliances that use a fixed amount, and the appliances that vary their consumption. The first type is simple and the necessary info is the item’s declared power in Watts or Kilowatts, such as these typical items: iron (1.5kW)…
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Logging in to EcoCounts accounts
You should have a user account based on your email address, stored on the EcoCounts’ NextCloud platform. If you want to change your email address or password, you must do it there. To login to the discussion board (which calls itself “Flarum” – a wordplay on “forum”), either click on the menu button top left…
Climate by Numbers
We started with spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are great for numbers, but not ideal for everyone, however they are good enough for phase one while we prove what we can do (we have plans for running our personal carbon accounts on technology suitable for everybody). First of all though we have to work out the how and…
Climate Action Now
Let’s work together to make North London climate-friendly Together we can! EcoCounts runs a Climate Action Group. Joining us costs nothing but your engagement! Wondering how you can tackle the climate crisis? You may think alone you can’t do very much, but as a part of a group, even small contributions make a difference.…