Welcome to Ian and Karen Byrne's web index. The sites that Ian is most associated can be found at:
The National Energy Foundation
Ian is Deputy Director of the leading independent UK Charity for sustainable energy. This site includes information about domestic energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy resources, and includes an online self-completion Home Energy Check.
If you are looking to stay in a more sustainable hotel, you may wish to try out the REST-Hotels website.
Petrol Maps
This is the main English Language site looking at European Road Maps issued by Petrol & Oil Companies since 1904! It has several hundred map images and charts this rarely studied branch of commercial cartography from the earliest days of motoring, when companies were keen to encourage motorists to drive further, to the present date, when some companies are beginning to take on board the notion of sustainability.
Timothy's Web of Trains
Not to be outdone by us, Timothy has a website showing his love of trains! OK, as a 8 year old, you can't expect that he has put it together without a little bit of help from his dad....
Sundials have been used for telling the time and the date for more than 5000 years. The shadows cast by rods fixed on buildings or stuck into the ground were observed and their differing positions throughout the day marked. From its small workshop in Somerton, Somerset, David Brown Sundials will design and craft a unique yet functional dial to your specification. Each sundial is specially calibrated to work at a particular latitude and longitude; the path of the shadow can be calculated for any given date, and so birthdays, anniversaries or other significant dates can be marked on these unique timepieces. This website also includes a plan for making a simple sundial that can be downloaded.
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