The societal need for us all to embrace more sustainable living has never been stronger. From fixing rather than replacing items, from better buying choices, or being smarter with our energy usage, there is a world of opportunity to reduce some of the negative impacts we have on the planet.
Recently the old family runabout came to the end of its life with us due to cam-belt failure. This is car number two and used for all the daily local trips, school runs, shopping trips and general duties so replacement priorities were: suitable for a life of short journeys (so no diesels), small enough for […]
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Building a sustainable and brilliant clothing system for the UK mountains and wild camping out of natural fibres To complement my ongoing make your own gear (MYOG) project, where am working on a completely plastic free wild camping setup suitable for UK mountain and moorland areas, I am pulling together a clothing system to suit.
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Introducing a fun MYOG project to see if I can bring plastic free wild camping in mountain environments to reality An idea I have been playing about with in my head for some time is getting into making my own equipment using natural materials as opposed to synthetic. MYOG or “make your own gear”, is
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In this post I am outlining whether using my excess solar generated energy to drive air to air heat pump heating = cheap/sustainable heating? One of the ways I plan to address spiralling heating costs is by experimenting with using an Air to Air heatpump run off my excess solar PV generation (i.e. that above
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