Monthly Archives: July 2017

Lighting — Light Bulbs Most light bulbs in my house (except those likely to be frequently turned on for short periods only) have been replaced with energy-saving bulbs. My limited understanding is that the older style incandescent bulbs wasted most of the energy consumed by turning it into heat. My personal preference […]

Lighting

20/07/2017 in Energy / Housing by akina

Hot water cylinders — Heating hot water can easily account for 30% of your electricity bill. My hot water cylinder has been turned off for the past two years. While it’s not for everyone, in my case I now use a gas shower unit similar to the one illustrated here. Again, while not to […]

Hot Water Heating

20/07/2017 in Energy / Housing by akina

Vampire Power — Standby power, often called ‘vampire power’, refers to the electric power consumed by electronic and electrical appliances while they are switched off or in a standby mode. Up to the middle of the last decade (2000 – 2010), before the widespread adoption of new regulations, standby power was often several […]

Vampire Power

20/07/2017 in Energy / Housing by akina

Energy Consumption — While it is fine to say “let’s reduce our power consumption”, often we may not have much idea of the typical total consumption of an individual appliance over a period of time: Work out (often found on a label at the back or underneath an appliance) what the item’s power […]

Electricity Consumption

20/07/2017 in Energy / Housing by akina

hemming jeans — I am able to buy new pairs of perfectly serviceable jeans from a local department store for $10. Unfortunately, being one of nature’s height-challenged people, they are invariably too long. For a professional to take up the hems – $30. Goodbye savings! For many years I had therefore persevered with […]

Hemming a Pair of Jeans

20/07/2017 in Clothing by akina

top4value.com - cleaning products — Do you have a multitude of cleaning products, at least one for every occasion, stored in your cupboards? Do you really need them all? Are you fully aware of the possibly harmful chemicals some of them may contain? Take a look a close look at the labels. A few years […]

Cleaning Products

19/07/2017 in Cleaning by akina

Cheetah - threatened with extinction — Human overpopulation and over-consumption are leading Earth to its sixth mass extinction faster than was previously thought, with the human race likely to be eradicated along the way, a new study warns. While much research has focused on the number of species being lost, this study, published this week in […]

Earth Already in Midst of Next Mass Extinction

13/07/2017 in Population tagged Extinction by akina

skull — Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the […]

The Uninhabitable Earth

09/07/2017 in Environment News tagged Extinction by akina