The Greening of Gavin

TGoG Podcast 077-Staying Warm Without Heating (Brass Monkey Challenge)

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The Brass Monkey Challenge is something that Kim and I came up with this winter to see if we could avoid using the natural gas heating in our home for the entire winter.

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Join Kim and me as we talk extensively about what this challenge has thrown at us over the last three months.

So far we have achieved our goal, and have come up with inventive ways of staying warm without heating.

Staying Warm Without Heating

We also talk about the recent Thermal assessment we received from ecoMaster, and what additional work we are going to get done to our home to make it more comfortable in summer and winter.

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 Until next time, stay warm and keep keen!

The Slippery Slope of Backyard Chooks

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I was just out admiring my girls (chooks) and watching their antics and wondered if there were hazards to having backyard hens.

Are there any hazards that a little bit of common sense won’t fix?

Well apparently there are!  There are many hazards as this homesteader video attests to.  Have a look.  It is an eye-opener.


This lady is the best.  I just wish that someone had have warned me.  I am only up to the Feta stage, without the goat, but I am friends with someone who owns one!

Enjoy, it will make your day.

Environmental Guy

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Quite a few people rightly mentioned on the Moth video by the WWF for earth hour, that humour is a great way of spreading the sustainable message.

But sometimes………


I laughed so much during this, because sometimes I catch myself thinking this way on occasion, and then rein it in (a lot) so that no-one will think I am weird ;-).  Jim Carrey really knows how to do a parody!  Its all about the colon people.