Save energy, save money & help save the planet
Energy-saving tips provides practical, achievable tips to help save energy, save money and reduce your carbon footprint. It’s the definitive guide to minimising your impact on the environment, while saving you cash along the way.
Practical advice on how to be green
Energy-saving tips is packed full of ideas to help you live a greener, more energy efficient lifestyle in all aspects of your daily routine. Discover tips ranging from household chores to leisure activities, fuel efficient driving to growing your own food. This website offers a wealth of information on how to live more sustainably without altering your quality of life.
Can’t I just offset my carbon emissions?
Some companies offer to offset your carbon emissions by planting trees (mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere by fixing the carbon in photosynthesis) or cutting carbon emissions elsewhere by introducing energy saving measures. There are a few problems with this. Firstly, our activities emit carbon immediately, where as planting trees will take much longer to re-absorb the same amount of CO2 also trees will only mop up carbon whilst they are growing, mature (fully grown trees have little effect on net carbon reduction). Carbon offsetting can be useful as an addition, but not an alternative to cutting our own energy emissions. This site tackles the more immediate issue of cutting our carbon emissions now!
Help cut carbon emissions by supporting the 10:10 campaign
The 10:10 campaign asks individuals, businesses and organisations to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. The hope is that thousands of individuals and businesses get involved and send a powerful message to politicians that we want tougher action against climate change.
Cutting 10% of our carbon emissions in one year is a bold target, but for most of us it’s an achievable one, energy-saving tips will help by giving you practical tips on how to save your 10%.
Share your experiences of living a greener lifestyle and get further advice on how to cut your carbon footprint at guardian.co.uk/10-10
If you would like to read more about the 10:10 campaign, or if you would like to help the campaign financially, visit 1010uk.org
What is a carbon footprint?
Carbon footprint is a fairly new term used to describe the impact on the environment as a result of your energy use. Everything we do, from cooking to travelling uses energy, and a waste product of producing that energy is Carbon Dioxide gas.
Don’t we need carbon dioxide?
- Yes, we do. Carbon dioxide is an essential part of our environment. It is used by plants to make food via photosynthesis, providing us with food and a constant supply of oxygen to breathe. Carbon dioxide also acts as a greenhouse gas, absorbing heat energy from the sun. Without carbon dioxide, the earth would be too cold for life to exist. The problem is that we are producing too much of it, this is causing the temperature of the earth to increase.
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