Happy New Year to every one. We had a lovely New Year with family and friends and then on January 3rd we walked down to our neighbours and picked up his old greenhouse, then walked back up the slippy road and put it on our lawn. Our plan is for it to be put back to back with our current greenhouse to make a greenhouse tunnel. However, it then snowed so we will need to wait for the thaw to move the project on.
We did the final tally of our CO2 use for 2010, 3.7 tonnes per adult and 1.85 tonnes per child for heating, lighting and transport. Adding in food, and clothes we estimate a figure of 5 tonnes per adult and 2.5 tonnes per child. This is really with minimal influence from the Solar PV as yet, and the wood pellet boiler isn't in.
The UK average per person in 2005, according to the World Bank Human Development Report, was 10.4 tonnes, so that isn't too bad. The UK target for 2010 was 8.32 tonnes per person and the aim for 2050 is 4.16 tonnes per person. That looks like we are getting there, however, the world average consumption in 2003 was 3.8 tonnes per person, still some work to do. Hopefully, 2011 should see a significant drop with the solar PV and pellet boiler.
We did the final tally of our CO2 use for 2010, 3.7 tonnes per adult and 1.85 tonnes per child for heating, lighting and transport. Adding in food, and clothes we estimate a figure of 5 tonnes per adult and 2.5 tonnes per child. This is really with minimal influence from the Solar PV as yet, and the wood pellet boiler isn't in.
The UK average per person in 2005, according to the World Bank Human Development Report, was 10.4 tonnes, so that isn't too bad. The UK target for 2010 was 8.32 tonnes per person and the aim for 2050 is 4.16 tonnes per person. That looks like we are getting there, however, the world average consumption in 2003 was 3.8 tonnes per person, still some work to do. Hopefully, 2011 should see a significant drop with the solar PV and pellet boiler.
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