Low Impact

On this day in 2007, the first entry was posted on the Low Impact website. Now, 1 year and 54 postings later, here we are!

In that time we’ve discussed the hidden environmental cost with bottled water. We’ve looked at the lifecycle emissions of nuclear power, and discovered that calling it a “zero emission” solution is a bit of a misnomer. And we’ve investigated our household power consumption with fun tools like the Centameter, and the unimaginatively-named MS6115.

There’s been rumours about the upcoming 2008 Prius, links to videos, discussions on compact fluorescent light globes (and how to dispose of them) and even instructions on growing your own sprouts!

It’s been… Continue reading

After 8 months, we’ve made some changes to the look of Low Impact.  Its still stuffed full of posts on reducing your environmental impact, and minimising your impact on climate change….but now the status bar is on the left!

Thats not the only difference, obviously.  In the scheme of things, its a pretty minor redesign, but hopefully it will still be easy to use, and to read.  Importantly, the new layout is a little wider, which should make things a bit more manageable to scroll through.

At the same time, we’ve upgraded the underlying software of the website, so we now have tags on posts - these are quite similar to categories, but even more “free form” - think of it as a way of showing the keywords in each post. … Continue reading