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Helping a Food Manufacturer to…

February 9th, 2010

Helping a Food Manufacturer to meet CRC obligations today.

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Energy Crisis: As the cliff face approaches why are we dithering?

February 5th, 2010

Yet again the fear over UK Energy Security has raised to the top of the public agenda, but why is it that we continue to dither over solving this problem?

This is not a new problem it has been round for decades, the only issue is that the impact of our dithering may now be felt within months.

Rumours of bills rising by 20% and possible energy shortages will have a greater significance on our digital/internet economy than in previous years due to so much of our every day lives needing continuous power. Many companies will be completely unable to function.

Communicating the need to Conserve & Protect Energy Resources:

We in the UK are going to have to accept a new way of generating energy locally. The primary way to enable better energy efficiency is having it produced within the areas of consumption, thus reducing the vast wastage in the transmission process. This would mean areas such as the East Midlands becoming more self sustaining on its own power.

Decentralised energy forms part of the national plan but is rarely discussed openly in the media. Therefore it is the duty of local Politicians to argue the right means to resource our local energy offering a simple choices e.g: a Wind Farms in the Countryside or some Nuclear Plants closer by within your local area.

Article: Fears Over Power Shortages BBC News Feb 2010

GAIA February 2010 (Article by Haydn)

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Just toured a distribution war…

February 4th, 2010

Just toured a distribution warehouse. TIP: Where possible try to lower internal temp as staff are active and keeping themselves warm.

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Were meeting a Chemical Busine…

February 4th, 2010

Were meeting a Chemical Business today keen to cut Carbon and save money.

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Energy Saving Tip: Focus on th…

February 1st, 2010

Energy Saving Tip: Focus on the ‘How’ (new Blog Post) http://www.gaiaactive.com/wordpress/?p=697

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Energy Saving Tips: Focus on the ‘How’

February 1st, 2010

The key challenge when running and Energy Efficiency project is to focus your attention on the key areas to find savings. For many this approach has centred on activity around the controlled environment such as new lighting system or building upgrades. This is a natural instinct as these items can be ’seen’ to use energy, they are visible energy day in your workplace.

Whilst good in their intentions, capital investments like these can have a problem that they are less likely to deliver the savings without an understanding of how you use your kit. In other words you focus on how your staff behave towards energy usage, after all there’s no point investing in kit that is misused or overridden.

GAIAs experience has shown that even modern factories can harbour wastage as a result of staff dis-engagement and dis-empowerment. The key to any energy efficiency programme is to consider ‘How’ you use your kit and ‘How’ you can use it better. By focusing on the ‘How’, It is likely you can find significant savings with less large scale capital investments or if you do make large investment an empowered workforce will improve the return on investment.

GAIA Feb 2010

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