Category Archives: Energy Consumption

How we live, travel, eat, sleep, keep warm or cool, all depends on some form of energy. How can we find our way to use less of it?

Get Inspeered!

Hello all, I hope this finds you well. What exactly is inspeered? You gotta watch the video to find out, but it’s worth the short journey to meet up once again with Diane and Theo to see what part three … Continue reading

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Electric bikes, the only way forward?

Technology takes us on many journeys, in the case of the electric bike, those journeys can be fast and fun, but like anything in our modern life, we need to look at the whole picture before we make decisions that … Continue reading

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TTRP TV – Yurt living – back to nature!

Hello all. With too much news out there bringing us down, I will continue to focus on the positive, and try to show the other side to the conversation. Yes, the world is going through turbulent times, but we can … Continue reading

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TTRP TV

Hello everyone, hope you are as well as can be! Someone recently told me they had a dream about me starting some sort of TV show or podcast. I’m techno unsavvy, and kinda like it that way, but there is … Continue reading

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Where’s my pump?

Hello everyone, Hope all is well. I met Joel yesterday and had to share his idea with the wider world. Bike geeks stay tuned!! Finally bringing the frame bike pump to market and his ideas on self-sufficient cycling are definitely … Continue reading

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Locked down, but the doors are wide open!!!

Hello all, I am pretty sure this finds everyone in a place, or state of mind, you never dreamed you would have been in about two months ago. When I was writing my latest book, Cycling off the Cliff… and … Continue reading

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Whiling away the miles!

Hello all, Want some inspiration for a bit of adventure? Well Harry surely inspired me. His story is pretty impressive. For his first extended cycle tour he definitely gave himself a challenge, and all for a good cause! How cool … Continue reading

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Marching for the planet!!

Our future is looking a little bit brighter after the world wide march for the climate on March 15th. I went down to listen to what the students had to say. Here is what it looked like on the streets … Continue reading

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The Adventure Continues!

We are still moving slowly along in our 6 wheeled camping car that we have christened Janey-Rae. As we roll along the small bi-ways of the Northeast at 40-50 mph (64-80 kph) she doesn’t guzzle the gas too badly. We recently … Continue reading

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Protected Beauty Spot – Planet Earth

  When we look at our tiny planet in our mind’s eye as a giant inexhaustible resource  that we can constantly drain on all it gives, and throw our waste onto its surface with no thought of the consequences of … Continue reading

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