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…
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.
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.…
Monthly Meet-up in Finsbury Park, last Monday of the month
Come along to the EcoCounts meet-up every last Monday of the month at the Oak-N4 bar in Wells Terrace, Finsbury Park. Meet other like-minded people and discover what we’re all about. Monthly Meet-up Address 5-7 Wells Terrace,London N4 3JU Starting Mondays 7pm Drop us a line if you want to tell us you’re coming Phone…
Get Involved
This is how we work: Milestones 🧍♀️🧍♂️🕺 The Group: we grow our group to make it 50 people strong ⬇️ 👣 Personal Carbon Footprints: we collect the CO2 numbers to give us accurate and reliable data that normally only companies and corporations would have access to. We generate a record of our activities like a…
The Lent Sessions at St Luke’s
EcoCounts’ Adam will be running 5 sessions at St Luke’s on how we can all live move sustainably, starting on Tuesday March 8th, the week after Shrove Tuesday. Lent is a period in the Christian calendar for fasting, contemplation and dealing with temptation, so what better undertaking can we do than tackle the temptations which…