About Us
Energy-saving tips is a site produced by green people for green people. We want to make you a happier, healthier and wealthier by giving you the ideas to improve your life and boost your bank balance. We aren't telling you to give up your car, become a vegetarian or ban all holidays further than Scarborough (not that there's anything wrong with holidaying in Scarborough). Instead we've got loads of quick and easy ways to scale down your carbon footprint. Instead we just provide practical, achievable tips to help save energy, save money and reduce your carbon footprint. Energy-saving tips is 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!
