About Me
2008-02-26 by Rob
My name is Rob Steves. I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I’m an electrical and mechanical engineer by trade. I’ve been pondering the issue of global climate change for a long time. It’s easy to feel like the situation is hopeless. After all, what can any one individual do? If I reduce my impact to zero, it will still not have any significant effect on a global scale. Clearly many must act together to make a difference. I created this website with the hope of helping to inform and inspire many people.
There are so many simple things people can do to reduce their impact and save money if only they know what to do. The hardest part is getting the word out. If you influence just one other person to reduce their impact then you have doubled any effect that you might have alone. If they in turn influence someone else… you get the idea.
If you’d like to contact me privately, you may do so by email at rob (at) iwilltry.org.
I work for National Council of Teacher of Mathematics. I created a webquest for a highschool project last year (http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=22453), and I am giving a presentation on solar cookers at a conference. I was hoping to use an image in my powerpoint from you page on solar cookers. Will you please give me permission to do so? I am also willing to add more of your information into the webquest itself, and you are more than welcome to use my webquest as a teaching tool, if you’d like.
Sarah
Hi Sarah,
You are welcome to use any images or information from this site for creating teaching tools. Thanks for asking.
Dear Rob Steves,
Contents of your webpages are very useful and practical. I am impressed.
My name is Natthayouth and I am from Thailand. I am an electrical engineer and also a part-time lecturer. Currently, I am trying to be an author of Science and Technology Knowledge Services website, http://www.stks.or.th/blog. I would like to use (translate and re-write) some of the contents on your “Adjust your freezer thermostat” for a Thai article on Energy Saving Tips.
Thailand is a very hot country where we have all year round daytime temperature average of 30-35 degree C. Adjusting a correct freezer thermostat will help Thailand keeping wasted energy to minimum.
I would like to obtain your permission to do that, please. Thank you very much in advance for your approval.
Yours sincerely,
Natthayouth
Hi Natthayouth, you have my permission to translate and use whatever parts of the article you like. Thanks for asking. -Rob
I just working on rebuilding my solar panels I made some years back and decided to see if anyone else showed up using coraplast as a collector medium. I see you been playing for some time too. I have been using the exact same method in one of my projects. The split ABS pipe. I have UV degregation with mine right now but they lasted about 17 years. I started with water but soon went to air only. I run a micro to control things and have seen it kick in as early as feb without any snow cleaning or maintenance. I don’t normally partake in web interface stuff but your work caught my eye. I am trying too….. haha Been playing for many years now. Solar (most types), Geo, Magnets, and most recently wood gas. Glad to see someone else thinks the same way.