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started on 27/2/2008 08:14
Hey, there is a group of people doing today what we do everyday. http://www.e-day.org.uk/. I suppose some people have to start from somewhere even if it is a long way behind. Tesco is one of the more prominent supporters but they didn’t feel that this event important enough to put on the home page of their website. It does not even get a mention on the icount homepage. e-day publicitywritten on 27/2/2008 19:15
Well, at least they’re measuring the effect of the day. Then, when (or if) they see it has little effect because nobody’s heard of it, they might be tempted to give it more publicity! Also, the problem with measuring just one day like this is that the savings (or increases) might just be a statistical blip! What’s the normal variability around the business as usual line? e-day publicitywritten on 27/2/2008 19:16
Well, at least they’re measuring the effect of the day. Then, when (or if) they see it has little effect because nobody’s heard of it, they might be tempted to give it more publicity! Also, the problem with measuring just one day like this is that the savings (or increases) might just be a statistical blip! What’s the normal variability around the business as usual line? Still it’s a pretty cool graph and idea. We should have a similar one for our Network footprint on the CRAG home page. Hi David, Agreed that wewritten on 27/2/2008 19:59
Hi David, Agreed that we should have an ongoing count of carbon saved verses targets for the groups. This in my mind is the essential monitoring for us individually and that we can represent to others as well. It is the whole CRAG story and individual’s stories that could be huge publicity and motivators to others. I am hoping these narratives get written up and available to those on the site and for outreach purposes too, perhaps some more input for the starter packs and posters. As an aside, I went on an intro to Permiculture weekend last may and met a woman called Laura who was the researcher for the ‘Britain under Threat’ CC programme from the BBC. She said then that there was going to be a big BBC programme in Jan 2008 that focused on people turning everything off prompted at times during the programme. She did say that the National Grid would feedback results in six months to which I said they know this running live which is what e-day is using. The programme got cancelled in August I think, as a result of discussions at The Edinburgh TV festival. Jeremy Paxman was dead against it. It does leave me with the feeling of missed opportunity and wonder if the results could have been good with some TV leading it. Channel 4 9pm yesterday had ‘the woman who stopped the traffic’ and succeeded in Marlow. Really good to see that TV can and sometimes does tackle the right stuff. |
Funny just 20 minutes into
tomhitchman
Funny just 20 minutes into this and e-day has currently used 7% more electricity than usual. And the counter is 1 MW more than predicted for live electricity usage. Lets hope it improves.