Save Energy, Save Money, Live Better
Thursday March 24th 2011 at 7.30 p.m. The King’s School
Sustainable Ottery have organised a talk to coincide with ‘Climate Week’, on Thursday 24th March at 7.30 in The King’s School which will look at why it is imperative to become more energy-efficient from both an environmental and an economic stand-point. [...]
See www.energysavingtrust.org.uk for more details. In the meantime if you are worried about paying your fuel bills this winter then you can call the Home Heat Helpline on 0800 33 66 99 – they can give you help and advice about paying your fuel bills. Here are some energy-saving tips for today:
Close your curtains at dusk [...]
Letter I sent to the Midweek Herald today…..
Dear Sir/Madam
I was interested to read about the plans to stop spending £10,000 of council taxpayers’ money on lamp post decorations in Honiton this Christmas. Honiton Town Council and Honiton District Chamber of Commerce are instead to spend a lesser (undisclosed) amount on 100 Christmas trees which will [...]
Simple measures such as turning electrical appliances off at the mains and installing energy-efficient lightbulbs could slash the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 40 megatonnes a year, or up to one third, according to new research which says that cutting electricity consumption is up to 60 per cent more effective than previously thought. Such [...]
Every time you go online you increase your carbon footprint. Is it possible to be a green surfer?
Somewhere in California (and soon to be in India and possibly Iceland) there are vast tracts of hulking warehouses containing thousands of energy-guzzling servers – it’s farming, but not as depicted in The Archers.
Server farms provide the network to [...]
My little boy finished off the orange juice this morning, showed me the carton and said “Can we recycle this Mummy?” What a clever 4 year old!!! Now I know our kerbside collection doesn’t include juice cartons so I used www.recyclenow.com to look up how and where we could recycle drinks cartons here in East [...]
According to National Statistics, almost 60% of households now own a tumble dryer. That means more than 14m households are using electricity to dry clothes, when they could save that energy by hanging them outside. This energy use is also contributing to climate change.
It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future [...]