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Power Down Weekend: Results

Well the results of the power down weekend that I posted about before are in and it is the Queen Mother Building that has won by a significant margin. The results are available on the Estates & Buildings page describing the endeavour and are republished here. College Building Weekend Average use (kWh) Weekend 4th- 7th Dec (kWh) % Savings Life Sciences Wellcome [...]
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Power Down Weekend

I am not sure of the true value of this experiment but it piques my interest nonetheless. Over the weekend of the 4th-7th December users of a number of buildings on the Dundee University campus are being asked to turn off non-essential equipment so that the energy consumption of a powered down building over a [...]
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Go Green at Lidl

Lidl in Dundee are doing their bit at the moment to encourage us to go green. Whilst doing my weekly shop I noticed that they have a range of LED lightbulbs for sale on their bargain non-food stuff/miscellaneous shelves. These are at huge discounts compared to mainstream DIY stores like B&Q and probably won’t be [...]
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  • Cult of the Green Man gathers news and ideas about green issues, green culture, sustainability, ecology, permaculture, and general veriditas related miscellany.

    The aim is to keep track of my reading and musing on topics related permaculture and sustainability which are increasingly of research interest to me as a domain of application for my skills in argumentation theory, agent software, and defeasible automated reasoning.

    I also love the outdoors, from walking, camping, hunting, fishing, and foraging, to gardening, keeping chucks and Apiary, right through to researching the myths of the green that underpin many of the folk tales told about the British landscape. Hopefully all of these aspects will get some attention on these pages in the future…

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