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Pavement charging hookup for electric vehicles

Posted on January 2, 2025

Many homes in Aberdeen have no driveways or garages where electric charger points can be fitted. Our house in Abergeldie Road is one such example. In August 2024 I wrote to my councillor Ian Yuill, to see if I could …

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Biodegradable plastic film for sustainable disposal

Posted on December 31, 2024

The post below was published in CIWM Circular Journal, p 64-67, Winter, 2024, circularonline.co.uk, summarising an ACA cafe in Aberdeen on 6th February 2024. The future direction for single-use packaging was the topic on everyone’s mind at a recent Aberdeen …

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Review of book “More is less” by Jason Hickel

Posted on May 26, 2023

Preventing climate change while promoting a growth economy with a growing population is incompatible. This is the substance of economic anthropologist Prof. Jason Hickel’s absorbing book. For 300,000 years our ancestors worked with nature, taking only what they required. Items …

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Green Lairds – Land Acquisition for Carbon.

Posted on August 30, 2022

This is an Aberdeen Climate Action café 7-9 pm, Tuesday 6th September, via Zoom and in person at MHA, 6 Dee Street, Aberdeen AB11 6DR (off Union St). Speakers are Nikki Gordon, John Muir Trust, Sara Thiam of The Scottish …

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Getting our traditional granite houses to zero carbon by 2045

Posted on April 26, 2022

Come to our discussion on insulation, draught-proofing, and zero carbon heating of traditional granite houses, to be held on Tuesday 3rd May, 7-9 pm, via Zoom. Go to Eventbrite, Aberdeen Climate Action events.

Improving the energy efficiency of a traditional stone house – second edition

Posted on September 19, 2014

Now that the energy refurbishment of our house is complete, I have brought my report up to date, 2015. While the house is much more cosy and energy use is a third what it was in 1998, the work would …

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