Buying And Planting A Bare-Rooted Currant Bush

Buying bare-rooted plants

Days 71 to 73 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: when I explain how I buy and plant a bare-rooted currant bush to provide fruit in summer.

A few posts ago I wrote about the bounty that you can get from home-grown fruit and what I have done to get it.

I mentioned that: Continue reading

Heating And Cooling Your Home And Office : 2 Top Improvement Tips

Your energy bills are pretty muchElectricity bill - comparison with neighbours the same throughout the year, aren’t they? Your bills never go up when it’s winter (or summer) because you live in a super energy-efficient home.

What?

You don’t live in a home that requires virtually no added heating or cooling to keep you comfortable? Continue reading

Solstice = time for a home energy efficiency check-up

It’s the middle of winter where I live in the southern Electricity consumption neighbourhood comparisonhemisphere.

We’ve just past the winter solstice and today I’ve been to a funeral.

Appropriately, the weather has been cold, gloomy and raining.  Continue reading

Season Change = Time To Check Your Home For Gaps

Where I live it’s starting to get cold.  And windy.Autumn street colour - Chinese pistachios with gum tree - April 2013

Maybe for you it’s starting to get hot.

Either way, unless your home is well sealed, if you live in a temperate region it could get pretty uncomfortable (or expensive!) pretty soon.  Continue reading