Monthly Archives: November 2013

One thing we have learnt this week- energy costs again

The news agenda is moving so fast on energy costs I cannot keep up! A number of things have happened in the last few days.  We have had some terrible winter death figures from last winter for the whole of … Continue reading

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“Just Christmas”

Our Church is involved in something called “Just Christmas”.  The idea is to have a more simple and less materialistic Christmas whilst remembering its true meaning, giving money you would have spent on presents away.  To be honest we have … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week- green crap and climate change despair

There are climate change talks taking place in Poland, and by all accounts they are not going very well. This in the same week the PM was reported as saying he wanted to get rid of all the green crap … Continue reading

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Can we cut energy bills? Part 3.

In the previous two posts in this series we examined some of the ideas currently being discussed to cut energy bills.  As authors of “No oil in the lamp” we think energy bills are just going to keep going up. … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week -cycling strategy

The UK governments cycling strategy has come under scrutiny this week as several people have died on London’s roads.  At the same tine the transport minister for England has suggested in Parliament that cycling will fall in England to 2040 … Continue reading

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Can we cut energy bills? Part 2.

In the first blog in this series we looked briefly at the background issues on cutting energy bills when at the same time we are trying to de-carbonise. Commentators and politicians have made a number of suggestions over the last … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week- the Haber process is 100 years old

The Haber process is 100 years old this year.  Haber its inventer was both a controversial and contradictory figure.  A chemist, his most famous contribution was to discover a means of removing nitrogen from the atmosphere and make it chemically … Continue reading

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Can we cut energy bills?

Can we cut energy bills? Apologies to non-UK readers (of which this blog has many) but for the last month or so the UK media has been full of suggestions of how to cut energy bills. Various ideas have been … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week – HS2 hoo ha

Its easy to forget with all the hoo ha over energy prices this week, there has been a HS2 hoo ha.  In principle our book supports high speed rail and by extension HS2.  However, speaking personally its hard not to … Continue reading

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