Finally I have a mortgage I can start to pay off!

Karmacat

Just joined up to Giki, and I've been zapping about all over the site here and there, very interesting  - my score is abysmally low, around 420 but that's because I live on my own in a semi detached house meant for a small family - awful anyway, it's reminded me of some things I've never done already - I'm on a regular tariff for elec and gas, for instance, easy enough to change.  Thanks for this!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, i've just signed up too! Scored 320 after the initial questions but once I went through and answered all the other questions it jumped to 3160

I think my score was skewed by having just planted 1000 trees in the garden but also I think I forget how many things we do already. Green electricity, no tumble dryer, rarely any flying (6 times in my life I think!) , mostly second hand clothes,  don't eat meat, rarely buy new appliances etc. Plenty more to do though!

newgirly

I just had a go and got 547,  not sure if having a full house is good or bad 😆

themadvix

Morning all,

Thanks CR 

Karma, Cheery, my score is 910. Cheery, that's an amazing score (but the trees will certainly help!)! But you're right, there's a lot we already do too, which makes the cutting a tonne in 2021 tricky. I only use 4.4 tonnes according to their calculator, so cutting a quarter of that is going to be hard. I'm attempting are no food waste for a week - pretty good with this, but not perfect (and remembering to actually check for a whole week is even harder!). It's not the answer, but I was also pleasantly surprised by how cheap it is to offset a tonne of carbon - £20-£40. Things like 'cycle somewhere' I've done, but I've not ticked off - I'm more likely to walk than cycle anyway, but feel I need to be doing it more often than I am to actually make it count - and this is not the time of year to start trying! I also find that eco-friendly washing powder doesn't do as good a job at 30 as it does at 40 (and soapnuts need 40 degrees to activate), so that one's out too. I think it's a great resource for ideas though and it's so positive that it can encourage people to take on small but effective challenges. Karma, don't be disheartened - I think moving would be rather a dramatic way to change your score - like you say, I bet there's loads of simpler/low cost things that you can do!

A small project has arrived overnight from America, but there's technical difficulties, so I'll have to wait until the project manager is up before I can get started on that. I intend to go to the zero-waste shop today as we're nearly out of several things. No free bread came up yesterday, so if nothing appears today I'll have to bake too. My scones yesterday were a bit of a disaster - I'm blaming the lack of fan oven - they ended up burnt! Still managed to eat them though and have a couple of slightly less burnt ones left for today. Think we might have this for dinner, using up last week's kale instead of the spinach and making use of the Instant Pot.

MS things:
* PA survey
* Work
* Meal planning with veg box

Gratitudes:
* Blue sky here again today
* A trip out for food shopping (wow.... this is what life has come to!)
* Work

Have a good day all!

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat said:

Oh!  Thats very good news then, a personalised rec and also one from Riverford is good enough.  I doubt they're a charity, to be honest, they call themselves a social enterprise in their terms of use, but that's fine.  Found a lot more about them when I peeped at their privacy policy Giki team  pretty high -powered, actually, they're obviously in it for the long haul.  Detailed things we can do are a godsend.

And they are a Ltd company

shangaijimmy

I fully concur with your gratitude for the sun shining. The sky looked ominous on my early dog walk, but its blue skies all around now, which really makes we want to go out for a run. I'm keeping fingers crossed it stays like this till mid afternoon at the latest!

I've saved the Giki thing for the weekend. Gives me something else to do, when I've already looked out of the front and back windows!

themadvix

newgirly said:

I just had a go and got 547,  not sure if having a full house is good or bad 😆

Sorry NG, must have cross posted. I think that's a good start - guess the full house probably does help!

Suffolk_lass

You're a bit quiet - I am hoping all is well with you and yours

Karmacat

I've been meaning to get onto this thread and say something like that for days.  Hope you're okay, madvix.

Busy_Mee

Me too. Hope all is well MadVix x