** Top News: First SusExp expedition completed successfully on 31st May 2008! **
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Welcome
Hi there. Welcome to the Sustainable Expeditions (SusExp for short) home page! Here you will hopefully find a wealth of inspiring material about the outdoors and how you can make your leisure activities more environmentally friendly.
About SusExp
SusExp was started at the start of summer 2007 by Tom Pendrey, who lives on the Isle of Barra at the south end of the Outer Hebrides. The purpose of the organisation is to promote sustainable lifestyles by using as much media attention as possible to raise awareness on sustainable issues. This is done by doing expeditions using as many environmentally friendly fuels and pieces of equipment to replace their less environmentally friendly alternatives. Read more about this on the 'About SusExp' page.
Tom can definitely see more happening in the future with SusExp. Ideally he'd like it to develop into a dynamic group of people passionate and inspired to experiment and develop skills in living outdoors. Whether that's from a kayak, walking, biking, sailing or anything else, there's loads of potential for great things. SusExp could be used as an organisation for this. Just now this is just an inspiration and Tom's pretty busy with other things, but if you're interested and think you have a good idea that you're passionate about then please get in touch by e-mailing info@sustainableexpeditions.org.
What's going on just now?
Tom has finished the first SusExp expedition up the Western Isles of Scotland from Mingulay and Barra Head to the Butt of Lewis! It ended up nearly 250Nm (275 statute miles or 450km) and 28 days in total! It was an amazing journey that involved loads of great experiences, meeting lots of friendly and generous people, learning lots about what you can find and catch from the land and what you can't and also about paddling and expedition life.
Why is there a black background - it's harder to read it - why not change it to white?
In some research I read, black monitor screen used 59W, compared to white monitor screen using 74W - that's 25% more power for white. So it's a statement about using less energy.
If you have any ideas for things that we could do on the website, or if you would like to know more about the expeditions, or if you would like to get involved then please get in touch, or if you want to get in touch for any other reason please e-mail info@sustainableexpeditions.org
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