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13/03/2008
Hi there Year 6 pupils from Ashley Primary School
Thank you for your comments and well done for giving us your ideas which are really useful for us here at ecoDriver.
We are working on them right now but it takes a bit of time to get everything organised so please be patient and watch this space.
What do you think of Ed the ecofrog?
Should he be our mascot?
Meanwhile I was at Sunnydown School recently and saw they had a competition each week on their display LCD.
An eco question is published on the screen and the 1st person to get the right answer is eco hero of the week and has their name in lights on the screen. How cool is that?
How about organising this at your school? You need someone to set it up ask the questions though....
See if you can find a volunteer, at Sunnydown it was the Deputy Head, and let me know how you get on.
NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS
CBBC News is a good place to see articles of interest
Check out the link below
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/static/find_out/specials/newsround_extra/2004/antarctica/html/default.stm
Bye for now
Ed 10/03/2008
Hi everyone
I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.
I work for ecoDriver and I am going to be helping you with your blogging.
I am new to this too so I hope you will all help me by posting your good ideas and keeping in touch with anything which might occur to you which everybody can share
I will be finding news and items of interest for you and passing on any information on a regular basis
This is your space so lets all use it to help in the fight against climate change 11/02/2008
We have been using the ecoDriver since November 2007, and we think it is great!
Here are some ways in which we believe it can be improved further!
Make it more child-friendly! E.g. have an ecoDriver character/mascot (especially for the younger members of the school).
Make it fun! Include interective games which show how turning on/off different appliances will make a differene to the amount of energy being consumed.
Make it competitive! Challenge other schools/classes to beat our energy consumption levels. What is the amount of energy being created by the Solar PVs in other parts of the world?
Price it! Show how much money we are saving, as well as energy, so we can use the money for other projects!
What do you think?
Year 6 pupils form Ashely C of E Primary School
12/01/2008
At Ashley School we are all becoming aware that energy saving is about mindset. We all need to remember to do it or it won't work. One simple example of this was at the end of last term when one of the classes left their heaters on. This was where the Ecodriver came into its own. Through analysing the data, the Ecodriver team was able to pick up that the holiday consumption was unusually high. An email was sent to me to this effect and I went into school to find and turn off the guilty heater! Even after that however, the consumption was still up on what it should have been so a couple of days later I returned to explore elsewhere and, sure enough, the heater in the ladies toilets was on, blowing out hot air to the benefit of no-one! So in our next staff meeting we will do some analysing of the Ecodriver print out for the holiday period and I will ask some searching questions of the staff. Let's hope the greater understanding of what happened and why will really get that mindset to change. Thank you Ecodriver for highlighting the problem. 18/10/2007
I have been calculating the wasted power in the tea urns. They run at around 2.5 kW. I am assuming this is whilst they are maintaining the temp and not whilst initially raising it from the ambient value. They are permanently left on, with holidays, weekends and nights this amounts to 6500 hours of unnecessary power consumption. Because a thermostat is switching it on and off throughout the day it is not constantly running at 2kW. Therefore a few hundred dollars p.a. would be saved. Timers could be added at minimal cost which could run from 7.00 am to 6.00pm. and units could be switched off in the holidays. 01/10/2007
One obvious way to assess how well you are doing is to compare your school with others. As schools vary considerably in terms of physical size, number of pupils, age of buildings, etc. what we need to be able to make a like-for-like comparison is a measure of the energy consumption per square metre of school building (kwh/sqm).
Energy consumption can be obtained initially (until you have a year of data stored in ecoDriver) from your previous energy bills. The area of your school's buildings is trickier, although according to the Carbon Trust, LEAs have provided these details for 17,000 UK primary and secondary schools. So it is highly likely that you have already provided this information, in the past, to your LEA.
Call your LEA and ask them if they have this information. Alternatively dig up last year's bills and start a project to measure your school - what a great project for the Maths team, your school's environmental team and a local surveyor!
The area that needs to be measured is the internal (treated) floor area of the school's buildings (this excludes areas that are not directly heated like storerooms, cupboards, etc.).
The purpose of this ecoblog is to enable ecoDriver users to share information about their progress on environmental sustainability issues and to provide a forum for collaboration.
Posting details of your achievements here will assist and encourage others to take part and make a real difference in our common goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
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