Our little town, Port Alberni, is at the forefront of this Transition

After todays Public Forum on Climate Change and Sustainability, I really do think that Port Alberni is at the leading edge of what *really* needs to happen on the way forward. The simple fact that 3 out of our current 6 councillors plus the Mayor and all of the senior management of the City were …

Live Blogging the Public Forum on Climate Change in Port Alberni

Echo Center 7PM tonight is the Public Forum on Climate Change in Port Alberni… I didn’t realise they had Internet in here until now… I’ve missed the 1st speaker, who was amazing… but he will be back for QA and i will start with the second speaker who is talking right now. The current speaker …

Analysing my Earth Hour energy graphs

So last night I tracked my consumption during Earth Hour with The Energy Detective hooked up to this webite. Here’s the graph for the hour (click for larger image). It updates approximately every 1-2 seconds. Now I have all electric baseboard heating as well as cooking and other appliances. We don’t have any Natural Gas …