Working out your electricity costs This month is all about how to work out your electricity costs, and how to discover the appliances that can cost you the most by borrowing some home energy monitors. What you pay for your electricity will depend on the supplier you are with, and which tariff you are on …
Orkney Climate Festival Thank you to all those who took part in the first Sanday Climate Festival, which itself was part of the first Orkney wide Climate Festival. The Orkney Festival was created by the newly formed North Highlands & Islands Climate Hub who are funded by the Scottish Government. The Hub is one of …
Sustainable Times The ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ are often used to mean the same thing but are actually very different and by mixing them together it is easy to overlook the story they tell. Weather is the short-term weather that we experience day to day. Take a look outside your window right now and if it …
Sustainable Times Climate change and the ‘greenhouse effect’ fears may feel like a relatively new thing but scientists began to realise the link between certain gases and rising temperature way back in the early 1800’s. The first person known to have experimented on the warming effect on sunlight and different gases was Eunice Foote, an …
Sustainable Times Welcome to the new section we are calling Sustainable Times. These days there are so many buzz words and phrases such as sustainable development, climate emergency, food security, circular economy, biodiversity and net zero to name a few and so it becomes difficult to keep up and know what they mean. The aim …
