I'm Al. I trained and taught high school maths and science, and I'm now at home with our two boys full time. I run The Eco-Friendly Life with my wife Katrina.
Teaching science leaves you with a particular habit: you want to see the working. When an article claims a product cuts emissions by some percentage, my first question is what the baseline was, who measured it, and whether the study was funded by the company selling the thing. Quite often the answer is unsatisfying. When it is, I say so here rather than passing the claim along because it sounded good.
That's the standard I try to hold myself to, and I'll be honest that it's a standard rather than a qualification. I'm not a climate scientist, an energy engineer or a financial adviser — and where a topic genuinely needs one, like green pensions or home solar economics, I'll point you to the primary source and to a professional rather than pretend the research makes me one.
What I can offer is careful reading, a maths teacher's suspicion of a suspiciously round number, and a household actually living with these decisions. Katrina and I have two boys, five years apart, and raising them has made the abstract arguments about sustainability concrete in a way nothing else did.
I cover green energy and technology, green finance, environmental education, community climate action, and gardening and composting. Outside of work I'm usually outdoors, reading, or watching one of the boys play something.
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