Eco-auditor
Through his auditing company 3 Acorns Eco-audits,
Donnachadh provides an environmental auditing service to individuals,
families
and businesses, assisting them in assessment and improvement of their
environmental performance.
Author
Donnachadh’s latest book “Easy
Eco-Auditing
- How to
make your home and workplace planet friendly" was released on
February 15th 2008 by Hamlyn’s Gaia Press. This is an essential
handbook for
those at home, work and school who want to assess their environmental
performance and create a practical action plan to improve it.
Donnachadh is also the author of "Saving
the Planet Without Costing the
Earth"
which was nominated one of FIVE BEST READS by The Independent
newspaper, Sept 2005 and was the Nr.1 environmental bestseller
on Amazon in April 2006. Published by Vision Paperbacks, it
offers 500 simple steps to a greener lifestyle.
Public Speaker
Donnachadh is in demand as a key-note speaker on environmental
issues at a wide range of events from corporate, national educational
and local government
conferences to local environmental campaign group public meetings.
Eco Journalist / Columnist
Donnachadh writes extensively as a free-lance writer on
environmental issues including the weekly “Home Ecologist” column for
the
Independent.
Media Commentator
Donnachadh is a frequent guest on national and regional radio and TV
programmes, putting the environmental case across a large range of
issues.
Leading By Example
Zero Carbon Home / Carbon Negative Home
Donnachadh believes passionately that environmentalists should lead by
example and so seeks to live by the green
principles which he promotes.
His home in Camberwell was the first private home in London
to
export solar electricity from the roof - to
London Electricity.
His hot water is heated by a solar water heating system
powered by a solar pump.
His WC is supplied by a rain harvester.
He travels to work by cycle.
On the 24th of October 2005 he had a wind turbine installed
on his home and became London Energy's first ever domestic wind
electricity supplier.
The house is heated by a wood burner powered by waste
wood.
In 2007 it finally become not only a zero carbon home but by a
modest 116 Kg became carbon negative. It sold more green
electricity from its solar electric panels to the national grid than it
imported fossil fuels.
National Awards
3 Acorns Eco-audits won the 2007/8 National Energy Efficiency
Award, Construction & Renovation Category, with the National
Trust
coming second and the Earth Building Brighton coming third.
The charity eco-auditing project carried out by 3 Acorns
Eco-audits for the City Bridge Trust won first prize in the 2007/8
Green Apple Awards at the House of Commons, in the charity section.
Donnachadh was also the instigator of Southwark Council’s Pesticide
Free Strategy which won 2 Green Apple awards in the 1990’s.
