This week I fixed some holes in some socks, repatriated some lost property from a caving weekend, and sorted out 5kg of mixed rubbish and recycling from it too.

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This week I did the same: fixed some rips in some running shoes using a speedy-stitch awl. Satisfyingly chonky thread.

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This week I fixed holes and rips in several items of clothing. Maybe took an hour in total but has hopefully added a few more years to them.

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I made GNOME Maps stop doing search queries faster than most people can type, with this One Weird Trick™: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/584

Medium-to-fast typists will no longer see flickering search results and won't be doing "Hokuto no ken" network requests anymore. I presume #GNOME users will have less chances of collectively DDoSing servers when the Year of the Linux Desktop™ happens.

#GNOMEMaps #OpenStreetMap #GraphHopper #EnergyEfficiency #EnvironmentThisWeek

This week infracost.io released an implementation of a feature I requested to show carbon emissions from your cloud service usage. 🥳

https://www.infracost.io/blog/shifting-carbon-impact-left/

While I’m no longer in a position to make use of this, hopefully others are! I’m going to claim this for my #EnvironmentThisWeek even if I did make the initial feature request a few years ago 😅 — making feature suggestions for the environment does work.

This week I arranged several in-person meetings to all happen in the same place on the same day, saving about 60 miles of travel.

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This week I planted out the 200 tree whips on a blissfully nice morning. Good to get outside after having a cold.

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This week was similarly unproductive, mostly due to having a cold. Moved some 2-year old saplings out to a sheltered spot near where they’ll get planted so they have some time to adapt to the weather there, but that was it.

#EnvironmentThisWeek #TreePlanting

This week I planned out tree planting for this planting season, and got hold of some tree whips in preparation. Not very much, but some progress.

Despaired at COP for a bit.

Donated some money to Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust for tree planting, as they have a double donation week. https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000008zzWbYAI

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Last week I car shared to two fell races, and combined one of those trips with a visit to several shops and the recycling centre to reduce my traffic miles. Small things.

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This week I chose to have a parcel delivered to a local shop for collection, rather than my door. Reduces the miles for the delivery vans, and forces me to go out for a nice 15min walk to pick it up. Win win.

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This week is basically the same as last week: I’m travelling around (sort of on holiday) by bus and foot. Decided not to bring my bike in the end; too rainy to be fun for the time I have.

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This week I’m going to Northern Ireland, but taking the short ferry (from Cairnryan) rather than the long one (means lower carbon emissions from ferrying), getting to the ferry by train, and taking my bike for getting around when I’m there.

I think that’s pretty much the lowest carbon way to get to NI, and it should be good exercise

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On the week of 2025-10-13 I sorted out the rubbish from a large party, ending up with 99% recycling, and (literally) a handful of stuff to go to landfill.

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I’m quite behind on this. On the week of 2025-10-06, I was doing building work all week, so didn’t do much for the environment. We did experiment with lime plaster, though, which is a common heritage building material, so tangentially environment-related. It took ages to dry.

#EnvironmentThisWeek #LimePlaster

This week I did all my baking for the week during a 2h period of super-low-carbon electricity in the UK’s grid (due to windy weather). Low embodied carbon cakes, and also free electricity 🥳

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This week I persuaded some friends to borrow or hire a decent quality tool rather than buy a cheap one for one week of work (and it inevitably get binned afterwards).

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Last week I had a friend stay over so we could go to a fell race together, allowing him to get there by public transport. It helped as the parking field for the race was small and quite slippery. I still could have done better at lift sharing though (two spare spaces in the car).

#EnvironmentThisWeek #FellRunning

Last week I spent a few hours planning for increased water storage capacity (both potable and grey) for a remote building which has suffered from drought on its spring fed water supply in recent years.

#EnvironmentThisWeek #ClimateChange

Last week I fixed a dodgy connection in some small consumer electronics (a night light) which meant it would otherwise have been thrown away.

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