The purpose of this blog is to share about the topics I am passionate about.
I want to share about the things that my family are doing to reduce our impact on the climate and the environment around us. I hope that some of the changes we have made will spark your interest, and you too might seek to explore possibilities around what you can do.
06 June 2020
We have now had our first full month with the new heat-pump based heating system. In this post, I will compare the raw numbers for heating/living with a combination of electricity and gas (June 2019), and electricity-only (June 2020).
06 June 2020
It’s been about week since we replaced our gas-fired central heating system with an electrical heat-pump based system.
31 May 2020
For the last couple of years, we have had a plan to incrementally remove the carbon emitting sources from our daily life. This started with PV solar power, improved insulation for our house, and more recently with the replacement of our diesel SUV with an electric car.
10 April 2020
This year, we thought we’d go camping over Easter. It’s a lovely day for it, and hopefully won’t be too cold overnight. Planning on a camping breakfast tomorrow morning.
03 April 2020
Here are a few pics from our exercise activities during the Covid 19 lockdown. We are very lucky to have so many biking and walking trails on our doorstep. Wellington really is a very special city.
13 March 2020
I’ve recently migrated from a Medium-hosted blog to a new self-hosted blog using Jekyll. In this post, I outline my motivations for the move, and highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks.