Globalwarming Awareness2007 Egg Blog

How to reduce CO2 emissions

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:32:32 +0000

There are so many things you can do to help reduce your CO₂ emissions. In fact you’ll be amazed just how easy it is to save energy around your home – often without spending a penny. Here are just a few simple ideas to help get you started:

1. Only boil as much water as you need

Electric kettles consume nearly 30% of all the electricity an average household uses for cooking. To save energy only boil as much water as you need (but remember to cover the element if you’re using an electric kettle). If everyone in the UK did this we’d save enough electricity to power two thirds of the street lighting in the UK.

2. Don’t use your car for short journeys

Nearly a quarter of all car journeys are less than 2 miles and cars consume most fuel at the start of their journey when the engine is cold. Walking or cycling for short journeys is not only good for your health, but could also reduce the amount of CO₂ emissions that are released into the air.

3. Dry your clothes outside or on a drying rack where possible

In dryer weather, hanging your clothes outside rather than using the tumble dryer will reduce your CO₂ emissions. They will dry quickly and smell fresh too. If you have space, then a clothes drying rack inside your home will dry your clothes just as effectively. If you do use the dryer, try to make sure you fill it each time, rather than putting on a number of small loads.

4. Switch to energy-saving bulbs

Choosing energy-saving light bulbs is one of the easiest ways of cutting your energy use. Just one energy saving light bulb can reduce your lighting costs by up to £100 over the lifetime of the bulb - and they last up to 12 times longer than ordinary light bulbs. The cost of energy saving bulbs is now reducing - so no excuses!

5. Turn off your appliances instead of leaving them on standby

Across the UK we waste the equivalent of around two power stations’ worth of electricity each year simply by leaving appliances like computers, printers and TVs on standby mode, and leaving chargers for appliances like mobile phones and electric toothbrushes switched on when not in use. Mobile phone chargers left plugged in waste over £60 million and are responsible for a quarter of a million tonnes of CO₂ every year alone. So turn off appliances using the main on/off switch (not the remote control) and unplug chargers when they are not in use.

6. Turn down thermostat

If your heating bills are burning a hole in your pocket try turning down your thermostat by just one degree at a time. Each one degree drop can help reduce your bill by up to 10% and save you around £40 per year. We recommend aiming for around 19-20°C in your living room and around 18°C in your bedroom.

7. Cook in a microwave

Microwave cooking can make significant reductions in your energy bills as it is much more energy efficient than conventional ovens. You don’t even have to sacrifice your cooking skills as most microwaves these days allow you to do many of the cooking functions of a normal oven. Microwave ovens cook food faster than conventional ovens because the energy goes directly into heating the food and not into heating.

These are just a few of the things that you can do to reduce your CO₂ emissions and help tackle climate change. If you’d like to get more information look at our online guide to greener living. Check back here in May 2007 to calculate your carbon footprint and get personalised advice on how you can reduce your emissions even further.

The Eggs are spreading

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:30:31 +0000

The globalwarming awareness2007 eggs are spreading around the net nicely. They have been spotted on Russian blogs, Finish blogs, Gaia profiles, Thai forums, UK forums, German forums, American forums, Myspace profiles and loads of other places. It’s getting exciting now! The site’s traffic is also rising, yesterday it was about 400 uniques.

So where is the site in the race for top search engine ranking for the term “globalwarming awareness2007″? Well according to the official score card the site is ranked 53rd. A big improvement from a couple of weeks ago. Still not great though, but there is still time. Although, that’s the problem, I can’t dedicate the time that’s needed in order to win this competition. Some of the front runners have got loads of links and are updating their blogs daily. Oh well, we’ll see what happens.

There are a couple of other sites (competitors) that have put together some clever ranking scripts that give an alternative leaderboard based on positions in the search engines. Here is a snap shot of my positions a few days ago:

Apparently, my best Google rank is 4! 4!! Huh? What? When? Nah, I don’t believe it.

Slowly Moving up Globalwarming Awareness2007 SERPs

admin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:45:34 +0000

At long last I see a move up the rankings for “globalwarming awareness2007″. It’s still not great. When the site first went online it showed as position 69 (snigger). I didn’t do anything with it for a couple of weeks and it dropped to something like 187th. Now the site is ranked 136 on Google. Still rubbish, but a move in the right direction. Google’s cache of the homepage still shows the temporary one that I threw together and not the eggs version.

It’s not ranked at all on MSN. The MSN bot has been to visit, we had tea, biscuits and a chat about globalwarming awareness2007, but I’m still not listed. Very strange.

I guess there is still time yet, although I do feel that I’ve missed the boat. I should have pulled my finger out sooner and done something with the site. Anyway, the eggs are now starting to show up in lots of different places.

Crucial Time for Globalwarming

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:34:44 +0000

Prime Minister Tony Blair has today said that this summer’s meeting of G8 leaders presents a “tremendous opportunity” to put in place a framework for fighting globalwarming after the Kyoto Protocol runs out in 2012.

Mr Blair, speaking earlier at a Press Conference said there was now widespread agreement around the world about the threat posed by climate change, as well as an enormous demand from the people of many nations for their political leaders to do something about it. Is this now globalwarming awareness2007?

Blair warned however, that agreement on a post-Kyoto process was far from certain at the G8 gathering at Heiligendamm in Germany in June. He said considerable behind-the-scenes work was needed in advance of the meeting to resolve technical details of any deal.

Mr Blair was speaking at a press conference in Berlin following talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, this year’s president of the G8. The Prime Minister said that the coming months were an “absolutely crucial” period not only for climate change but also for other global priorities such as the Middle East peace process and the search for a world trade deal.

He promised to do “as much as I can” to secure success in these negotiations in the few months left to him before he steps down as Prime Minister, which he has said he would do by the start of September.

Ms Merkel said a conference in May will thrash out the details of a climate change deal to be put before the leaders of the G8 countries - the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia - as well as China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, who will also be represented at Heiligendamm. Will globalwarming awareness2007 now be a reality?

Contact

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:29:11 +0000

To contact me either send an email to haydon {aatt} globalwarmingawareness2007comp.com or just leave a comment using the form below. I get emailed the comments.

Globalwarming awareness2007 Eggs are alive

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:18:44 +0000

I’ve eventually got around to creating a proper site and some content, of sorts. It’s not ideal, but I’m up against time. As to my ranking for globalwarming awareness2007, I’m well down. Last time I checked on Google I was around 180th. eek! Have I left it too late?

My secret weapon is no longer secret and the globalwarming awareness2007 eggs have been let loose. Will they the eggs take over? Heh probably not.

About

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:25:40 +0000

What is the Globalwarming Awareness2007 Egg Blog? It’s got nothing to do with egg nog. It’s actually an entry into the SEO World Championships. A competition to get top rankings for the term Globalwarming Awareness2007 in Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Yeah, but why ‘eggs’ I hear you ask. Well I wanted to create something a little different from the usual, I’m an eccentric Brit after all. I wanted something that would encourage people to actually link to the site, make them smile and at the same time actually create awareness of the globalwarming problem. The egg graphics can be put onto web pages etc and will ‘hatch’ into animals that are endangered by globalwarming.

So the Globalwarming Awareness2007 Egg Blog is all about my attempts to make an impact on this seo competition and the seo community as a whole.

Please leave your comments about the site….

Cutting edge contamination

admin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The electronics industry is often considered a ‘clean’ industry. But sleek shiny gadgets hide a darker side of the industry. Our new report ‘Cutting Edge Contamination’ exposes that some of the electronics industries’ biggest brands, and their suppliers, are contaminating rivers and underground wells with a wide range of hazardous chemicals during production.

Stop the Horror: Ban Illegal Timber

admin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:54:34 +0000

If you buy or sell pirate DVDs you would be breaking the law. You could face a fine or even get jail time. But when companies in Europe buy or sell illegal timber from the last of the world’s ancient forests they won’t even have the timber confiscated.

Bayer defends genetic contamination as "Act of God"

admin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:07:26 +0000

You might blame the dog for eating your homework, or a traffic jam for being late to work. But if you ever find yourself facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit for contaminating the world’s number one food crop with an unapproved genetically engineered variety, just do what biotech company Bayer does. Blame God!