Stewardship begins at home

  • Posted by John
  • April 16, 2009

It’s the little things that make up a difference.

It is those little changes that we do individually that can make the real difference.  I have been reading about people’s experience of using energy saving meters and how they are a brilliant tool to help see how much energy is saved when making those little changes.  They are great at measuring the impact of doing things like only filling the kettle with water you need, switching off appliances that would be left on stand-by (or not), or changing to different kinds of bulbs.

There are several devices out there that are easy to use, some of which are below:

http://news.cnet.com/

http://www.homeenergysaving.co.uk/

http://www.maplin.co.uk/

I wonder how much of a difference we make when we see those little changes done by many of us.   Maybe you have a similar device at home, or have simply made some changes and saw an impact on your bills.  Why not share about it here.

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Rupert Ward
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April 16, 2009 at 1:02 pm

We have been using an “owl” for a few months. It monitors electricity usage, and has been very enlightening (ha ha!)on how we can save money and power very easily, by turning off lights, filling the kettle less etc. etc.

We got our owl from our electricity supplier free of charge … worth asking yours if they will do the same.

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Ben Gordon
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April 17, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Hey John,

I like the website, there is definitely a clean and green feel to it.

The “owl” device ont he home energy saving website looks like a useful device. I might take up Rupert’s suggestion and ask my energy supplier if they provide one for free.

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Neil Duguid
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April 21, 2009 at 3:39 pm

I like the range covered by the three links. The Owl one, especially, is a well engineered product, fit for purpose and well written up.

It’s a bit like the Money Clinic and budgeting really … the language doesn’t need a lot of rewriting!
1) know where your money/energy goes
2) set a budget/target
3) have practical ways to live by it without becoming a mean eccentric

I’m happy to lend a plug-in monitor, which will work out where a fair amount of your electrical energy goes, especially seeing what devices have significant power use when on standby. This complements the Owl monitor (which, personally, I feel is convenient but much less necessary) - which is why they offer the two units as a package on their website.

Going one step further, I’m happy to run a household energy audit session if there is the interest.

Neil