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\"1357600133\"<\/a>Its customary at this time of year to make some New Year resolutions.\u00a0 I’ve never been a great one for this to be honest, but I think its time with the big climate talks taking place this year to make some eco resolutions.\u00a0 In our book<\/a> we split up stuff you could do to prepare for a post oil world into a number of areas.\u00a0 These were energy, transport, food and chemicals (basically material goods) at three different levels.<\/p>\n

Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most readers of this blog or our book will have an interest in reducing their energy usage and made huge strides in this direction.\u00a0 New Year resolutions in this area include continuing to reduce electricity usage.\u00a0 One way of doing this is by LED’s.\u00a0 My electricity consumption has fallen throughout 2014 thanks to installation of more LED’s and a very efficient CF (with rapid warm-up and incandescent style light).\u00a0 At the moment its frustrating since there are no 100W equivalent LED’s on the market but I will continue looking.\u00a0 I am planning to buy 3 more very efficient high power CF’s soon.\u00a0 Our natural gas consumption is still rising after reaching a low a few years ago.\u00a0 I’ve done most of the easy stuff on insulation and one very recent difficult and time consuming specialist bit which I will put up a blog post on.\u00a0 There is one bit of roof which needs to have its insulation sorted out and laid neatly between the rafters etc.\u00a0 That I will do.<\/p>\n

Transport<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next of the New Year resolutions relates to transport.\u00a0 This is a more difficult one for me.\u00a0 My wife has to have a car for work.\u00a0 I don’t and rarely use it.\u00a0\u00a0 I mainly cycle, walk and don’t fly.\u00a0\u00a0 There are occasions when I have used the car when I could have cycled, so I suppose my pledge for this year is to do so as little as possible.<\/p>\n

Chemicals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another difficult of the New Year resolutions…\u00a0 We can recycle a lot and do but cutting usage we have found difficult.\u00a0 Our waste bins for non-recyclable waste are being reduced in size this year so hopefully that will help reduce our waste.<\/p>\n

Food<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I have blogged before<\/a> measuring your energy use and carbon emissions from this is quite easy, its all the stuff we buy that’s more difficult to gauge.\u00a0 The main of my New Year resolutions of this year is going to be on food.\u00a0 This is partly because Andy, I and one other are writing a book on food.\u00a0 Its been a bit of an epic saga but hopefully it will come to fruition this year.\u00a0 Since I wrote this<\/a> I have trying to cut our meat consumption.\u00a0 Not easy, but I will continue.\u00a0 I am now making all our own bread and will attempt to grow as much as can in our vegetable patch.\u00a0 The last few years have been good to us on this part with good to great crops of homegrown fruit or vegetables.\u00a0 I will continue to try to cook as much as locally grown fresh food as possible.<\/p>\n

Other stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m going to more on twitter and am considering going to Paris for the UN climate talks (easy to get to by train).\u00a0 I’m going to make a small nest for solitary bees and do some grafting onto my apple tree.\u00a0 You got any tips or ideas -please feel free to post.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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