Quoted
Thu Oct 15 2009
Post a comment— William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.
Robert Bateman on his ‘Overt Environmental Message’
Mon Oct 12 2009
Post a commentFrom time to time it comes to me that I’ve got something to say. I’m not out there trying to be David Suzuki in acrylic [though] you know I do often talk that way. But there are a number of paintings… I think the most important, one of the most important paintings I’ve done is called Driftnet.
[as quoted on ‘Q: The Podcast for Friday, October 9, 2009.]
More on Bateman here.
Peter Guthrie on Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Fri Sep 25 2009
Post a commentOn how much difference can actually be made through efficiency:
[T]he work done by the Carbon Trust shows that at least 40% of our emissions could be affected now, with known technologies, and a large percentage of that is about improved use of energy and improved energy efficiency. So these are big numbers. We’re not fiddling at the edges here. Improving energy performance in the built environment could be a very major contributor to reducing carbon emissions. […]
The complete interview can be heard here.
