Dennis Williams

wow...I took the Earth Day Network ecological footprint quiz, and it appears that I am killing us all :/ if everyone were to live like me we would need 3.8 Earths. 

So, I have actually been baking a lot, and just forgot to post anything...I've also been doing a lot of one pan cooking, and single prep multi day cooking (this cuts down own dishes and the amount of energy time on my stove)

So the energy audit showed that we were much more efficient than most of our neighbors, I grew up being scolded for leaving stuff on, or doors open...so maybe I had a bit of an advantage in that it has always been a thing in my life. Also, a huge thing for us is we have been prepping the house for sale, so the refrigerator (main) in a new energy star, and I just had the crawl space and attic re-insulated last spring. We both work hard to keep our usage low, since we are mostly a one income household until I graduate. The report listed a few changes that would result ina net 6% increase in efficiency: adding solar to the roof and swapping the second fridge to energy star. Overall we came in 90% more effiecient than our neighbors.

I've gone through the programmable electronics in the house and set them to shut down after periods of disuse, 15 minutes for my desktop, 30 minutes for the TV.

so, I added some organic/non-gmo baking ingredients to my shopping list yesterday...I have dough proofing now, and will be having (hopefully) french rolls with dinner tonight.

just a quick note, the picture of the painted hills that I used for my banner is not mine, Gregory Retallack took this picture in his series on the 'Oregon Badlands' and I am using it through creative commons.

some of the energy items are easy one time fixes/surveys...so I should be able to get a running start and see if there are other more long term behavioral items that I can work on as well.