Thursday, March 11th, 2010

What is this environment thing I keep hearing about?

Oh yeah, we’ve been destroying the planet since the industrial age began. Aren’t we clever.

My job is to sell and engineer lighting control systems, and to give you an example, a warehouse I just worked on is now going to be able to save £100,000 per year in energy bills (half its current expenditure), or around 500 Tonnes of carbon per year. Thats about 100 times my own carbon imprint, saved per year. What does that mean?

Well slap my back…I’ve made a contribution. But what really is the scariest thing about that?