http://www.sustainmyself.com Learning the art of sustainability Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago, we had our Cent-A-Meter delivered. Wow. The Cent-A-Meter is a small device for monitoring your real-time household power. You can see current usage, current cost, current emissions and then view the peaks or totals for the day, month or quarter. In other words, if you were ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/fSJnqlZBCe4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/fSJnqlZBCe4/the-single-greatest-purchase-a-home-owner-can-make.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2010/02/the-single-greatest-purchase-a-home-owner-can-make.html A lot of us try to maximise the milage from the cars we have, whether they are new efficient cars or ageing guzzlers. We try not to use the air conditioning as it uses more fuel, keep the tyres inflated properly, don't accelerate aggressively etc in an attempt to remain ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/MbDExMyfgi0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/MbDExMyfgi0/eco-modding-getting-the-best-efficiency-from-your-car.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2010/01/eco-modding-getting-the-best-efficiency-from-your-car.html Bec and I have been throwing around the idea of getting solar panels on our house for quite some time but have not had $5k just lying around to do it. With current initiatives from the NSW Government, we are looking at getting solar now in the next few months ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/QwIDQmWbvL8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/QwIDQmWbvL8/i-wear-my-solar-panels-at-night.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/11/i-wear-my-solar-panels-at-night.html Welcome to Blog Action Day 2009. This years topic is 'Climate Change' which is a fairly hefty topic that covers to many different areas. Last year was more concise and focussed on Homelessness, I contributed to that BAD also. As the Americas are still in their slumber, I thought I'd ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/ToqxVlBrVLQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/ToqxVlBrVLQ/blog-action-day-2009-climate-change.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-2009-climate-change.html I was watching a show on Discovery last night about how they make Apache attack helicopters (or as I like to call them ‘Stupidly overpriced death machines’.) I was stunned to learn that the machine gun under the helicopter will point where ever the pilot looks! That means that all ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/H3qok9jMkgM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/H3qok9jMkgM/what-year-is-this.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/09/what-year-is-this.html We have been having problems with our lawn for about 6 months. It all started when the dog started to dig us a new Olympic size swimming pool. While I appreciated her efforts (as I would love a pool) I discouraged her from continuing as I knew this would be ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/5UpT03UxCOo" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/5UpT03UxCOo/chemicals-everywhere-i-look.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/07/chemicals-everywhere-i-look.html Two weeks ago … There is really nothing I like as much as spending a day in the garden with Bec, Abbey and the Dog. Even if we don’t end up getting much done, its still so nice to just muck about and lie in the sun. Two weeks ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/nA25b8MW1PU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/nA25b8MW1PU/family-gardening.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/07/family-gardening.html Back in December, I wrote a post about the pitiful effort of the Australian government to reduce emissions. Kevin Rudd had set a guaranteed 5% reduction by the year 2020 despite the uproar from the public and some scientists, this figure has remained in place. Today I received an email from ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/uS1zceOKc7s" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/uS1zceOKc7s/kevin-rudd-climate-action.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/04/kevin-rudd-climate-action.html At last, after months of convincing, years of unit dwelling and a decade since my last chooks, I am please to introduce the Pecker Sisters, Pamela and Rosanna: They are two Isa Brown chickens around 18 weeks old and are beautiful. They are so soft and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/TcLGoC5g5pM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/TcLGoC5g5pM/introducing-pamela-and-rosanna-the-pecker-sisters.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/03/introducing-pamela-and-rosanna-the-pecker-sisters.html I haven’t had much success with getting my seeds to sprout yet, but I did find a good video about how to do it. Planting avocado tree I have two seeds sitting here now waiting for my next attempt.. Wish me luck! Related posts:Family gardening ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SustainMyself/~4/q0Kj1T7GMXA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SustainMyself/~3/q0Kj1T7GMXA/planting-avocado-seeds.html http://www.sustainmyself.com/2009/03/planting-avocado-seeds.html