Energy - The Greeny Flat Experience

Feb 14th, 2016: Gotta Love These Little Houses

Well it’s Valentine’s Day. I’ll let Cintia choose whether I cook her dinner or we go out to a restaurant… either way this will have to be a quick Newsletter so I thought I’d share a couple of exciting little houses that readers have told me about.

Now THIS Is Affordable Housing!

Modular […]

Jan 24, 2016: PHEV Goes Bush

By now our regular readers will be quite familiar with our Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle – new readers can get caught up here). This week we took it on our longest trip yet, were delighted with its performance and also received some interesting feedback from other PHEV owners.

Go West Young PHEV […]

Jan 10, 2016: How To Reduce Our Carbon Footprint

Chevy Bolt Released In US

The new Chevrolet Bolt EV goes into production

As described in this Gizmag article, Chevrolet has started production of their new ‘Bolt’ Electric Vehicle (EV). It will go on sale in the US with a price tag of around $38,000 (although the US offers a $7,500 rebate on […]

Jan 3, 2016: PHEV Goes Camping

Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing about our new Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) which was the logical next step in journey towards a fossil-fuel-free lifestyle. Clearly a PHEV is not fossil-fuel-free as it uses petrol to run the Hybrid drive system but, for our close-to-home trips, the Plug-in feature allows us to […]

Dec 27, 2015: Electric Driving Less Than Half The Cost of Petrol

In last week’s Newsletter I wrote about our first week with our new Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV).

Cintia’s Thoughts About The PHEV

One regular reader commented that they would like to hear what ‘The Boss’ thinks of it, so I asked her to pen a few words…

What do i think about […]

Dec 20, 2015: Our First Week With an Electric Vehicle

In last week’s Newsletter I wrote about bringing home our new Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). In that article I outlined the reasons why we chose ‘the world’s first plug-in hybrid SUV’ for our own electric vehicle (EV).

This week I will briefly describe how we feel about it and what we have […]

Dec 13, 2015: Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is.

This whole Greeny Flat thing started with the idea that we have to learn how to live without fossil fuels. By designing, building, living in and monitoring the Greeny Flat we’ve been able to prove that it is relatively easy to inexpensive to create a house that makes more energy than it uses. In fact, […]

Nov 29, 2015: Walking for Climate Action and Driving Electric Vehicles

What to we want? CLIMATE JUSTICE. When do we want it? NOW!

On the eve of the United Nations Climate Summit, people around the world are marching today to send a message to the delegates in Paris that we expect them to take strong action for a transition to renewable energy, clean air, […]

Nov 15, 2015: Battery Storage Options

In last week’s Newsletter I wrote about the approaching battery storage revolution and whether or not we are likely to see a big percentage of homeowners go ‘off-the-grid’. Personally I think this is unlikely but it will depend on how electricity companies adapt to the fundamental changes that solar + storage are bringing to the […]

Oct 8, 2015: The Big Disconnect?

Will the battery storage revolution take us all off the grid?

Since I wrote about Tesla’s announcement of the release of its battery storage system called the ‘Powerwall‘ back in our May 3rd Newsletter I’ve had countless people ask me what I think about battery storage for solar power systems and how soon […]

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