glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
My disheasher is fine, it runs off cheap windpower at night
Commuting to work carbon footprint
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Bogweevil
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Yes you do use the internet far to much, see all the energy you are wasting
To be fair most NZ leccy is hydro and renewable.
Bogweevil
Member
Use less water than hand washing - not a great concern in your region but a big one in S England.
- Location
- East yorks
My commute to the farm until a month ago was 30miles so picking on people for going to work when most farmers live there really is pointless
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Nobody used to commute
They lived at the job
Accountants and lawyers all lived in cities, now they live in farmhouses
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Dishwashers used correctly are pretty efficient because the bulk of the energy usage is from heating up the water - something that happens if you hand-wash anyway & used correctly a modern dishwasher will use less water overall compared to handwashing. Their downfall is people running them when the machine isn't full or pre rinsing under a running tap.
One of the worst culprits are washing machines - especially those with integrated drying cycles because nobody seems to want to hang washing out on a line these days.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Indeed, when I was a kid, the people who lived in rural properties were at the lower end of the pay scale and were almost certainly what would be classed as locals with their family history known to other locals going back generations and were part of the rural community.
Nail on the head
And with population growth there's now billions more people living in cities doing make believe work, driving around in gridlocked streets
Yet farmers are killing the planet
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
We have a society and economy based on capitalism and individual freedoms to do whatever we wish within certain laws.
Any government serious about tackling climate change would need to take some very unpopular decisions which would curb peoples freedoms as we now know them. For example limit flying, car travel or commuting amongst other things. An election manifesto which includes any of these is a sure fire loser so won't happen.
If policy was based with the climate impact considered first then I have no doubt the problem would be solved quickly. This will not happen and, unless technology can provide solutions, I doubt that there will be a solution to the climate crisis.
Any government serious about tackling climate change would need to take some very unpopular decisions which would curb peoples freedoms as we now know them. For example limit flying, car travel or commuting amongst other things. An election manifesto which includes any of these is a sure fire loser so won't happen.
If policy was based with the climate impact considered first then I have no doubt the problem would be solved quickly. This will not happen and, unless technology can provide solutions, I doubt that there will be a solution to the climate crisis.
Years ago if you built a mill you had to build housing nearby for the workers as well or there wouldn't be any workers.
Farmers are much less polluting than most other folk as most of them walk to work
- Location
- Scotland
What do you mean.... like tourism?
And like growing malting and brewing barley.
And everything that goes beyond simple existence in a cave.
The Seeker
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half a mile, i know people who drive 15 miles 3 times a week to the gym, madness
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Gym machines should be connected to generators to make power
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
I now a man who thinks all prisoners should do a couple of hours a day on such a machine to help pay for their keep.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Prisoners used to have to spend hours pointlessly turning a screw thing. Hence the term “ screws”
Very little if anything