Sustainable Suburbia

---------------Getting along in the 21st Century with half the baggage you carried in the last.------------ /*************************Low cost electronic solutions for a low impact lifestyle.************************/

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

As the sun sinks...

›
I return to my blog after a week spent in southern Portugal. The occasion was to celebtrate my father's 75th birthday which fortunately ...
1 comment:
Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Economic Reality

›
The weather recently has been poor, and so stuck indoors at my desk, I decided to catch up on some web research. Monday began by looking int...
3 comments:
Friday, October 28, 2005

Life's a Gas

›
October has either been very mild, or my new gas boiler is fitted with a mega-efficient burner. Either way my gas consumption has plummeted ...
1 comment:
Monday, October 17, 2005

The Scrap Man Cometh!

›
It's funny when things just happen by coincidence, and couldn't have been better organised by human intervention. This weekend I tid...
1 comment:
Sunday, October 16, 2005

Shed Power?

›
Monty Python's Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson. - only had one garden shed, ironically - I now have 3, and small greenhouse. I a...
1 comment:
Saturday, October 15, 2005

Negawatts?

›
Negawatts is a term first coined by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute describing how the saving of small, almost trivial, amounts...

Solar Powered Saturday

›
It's amazing what a little sunshine will do! Blazing sunshine in mid-October is just what the doctor ordered. This week started well wit...
2 comments:
Friday, September 30, 2005

The diet seems to be working

›
Since starting my e-Plan diet last week, I have managed to cut my electricity consumption by 40%, and still continue to use the high wattage...
1 comment:
Friday, September 23, 2005

The e-Plan Diet

›
I have recently decided to put my house on a diet - its consuming too much energy and the bills are getting fat. So I came up with the ultim...
4 comments:
Monday, September 19, 2005

Playstation Generation?

›
The day started early with a shower at 6:30am in order refresh me prior to the drive over to Swindon for mid-morning. By 8am I was on the M2...
1 comment:
Saturday, September 17, 2005

The New Extension

›
Following 6 months of hard work, we very nearly have our new kitchen and bathroom extension completed. Although it's only about 12 squar...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

Sustainable Suburbia?

›
Sustainable Suburbia Here goes - the creation of a new blog focusing on a Sustainable Suburbia - or should that be Sustainia? I live 20 mile...
8 comments:
‹
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Ken Boak
I am an electronics engineer working with embedded microcontrollers within instrumentation, telecoms and low power wireless. Applications include energy saving, renewable energy, automation for CHP and open hardware I'm interested in renewable energy, suburban repurposing/transition and gasification for domestic heat and power. You can find me @monsonite on Twitter
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.