My Fair Share

Well, I’ll be darned.
The whole crop circle idea has taken off. We had a yarn today and with about 60 families involved, we have decided to become an incorporated association, with a real rubber stamp and everything!
Dreams can come true.

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I just wrote – then deleted – a whole post that waffled on about where I have been and what i have been doing, and about this and about that, and lamenting that now that I am the breadwinner once more, I have less time and inclination to pursue those things that matter (like making [...]

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Hmmmm. I have been thinking on Australia’s imminent Emissions Trading Scheme, and I have a number of ideas, but am yet to come to a conclusion..
Can someone please tell me what the point is of reducing my own emissions if we have an emissions trading scheme?

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It’s been a few months since I publicly said that I would follow Green With a Gun’s Carbon accounting method.  I introduced the idea here.
It’s been a few months since I have been seriously blogging about the MyFairShare journey that we are (meant to be) undertaking.
So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to [...]

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One of the four goals of FairShareInternational is:
10: tread lightly
Reducing my use of water, energy and minerals by at least 10%, based on the national average per capita consumption. [this is 10% per year until you can go no further]
Now, I’ve been plugging along at this for a few years, and recent results [...]

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So, this is it.
As at the beginning of the 12 month project, we sat at 11% below average consumption.
As at the end of the year, our cumulative average across all categories for the year was 46% below average.
This included significant “costs” associated with investing in those things needed to generate a more sustainable reduction beyond [...]

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It’s been a year.  What has happened?
In electricity, we started with an annual average consumption for our district of 12750kWh.
Our consumption for the full year has been  6784kWh, equating to about 18kWh per day.
A combination of purchasing so-called green power as well as doubling up with carbon offsets meant that we would be carbon neutral [...]

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Kyle from Green With a Gun has gone and offered an excellent analysis of what a fair share of electricity is.
What does it mean for our family?
Kyle states:
So for people at home, you’re looking at an average of 100W, or 2.4kWh/day.
That’d be 876kWh each year. That is, a fair share of the world’s electricity generation [...]

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Water water everywhere, but not a drop to … soak in.
I dare say that Coleridge was referring to my back yard. What else is one to make of these stanzas:

And a good north rain sprung up behind ;
The rooster still did bellow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the gardener’s holler ! [...]

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The kids love planting stuff.  We use old yogurt containers with a hole drilled in the bottom.  They get all mucky filling them with potting mix and then putting seeds in them and then knocking them over and then picking them up and then mixing all the different seeds together and then running away to [...]

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