Turn off the cooker


Here’s a great energy-saving, carbon-reducing tip: turn your oven off five to 10 minutes before the end of the recommended cooking period, because it maintains sufficient heat. Also, turn off any gas or electric fires and radiators an hour before you plan to go to bed, and don’t have them on for longer than an hour or two at a time.

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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Bring about an end to carbon crimes: a new pledge to cut your carbon every week


I’ve only just discovered The Guardian newspaper’s Tread Lightly campaign. It’s a wonderful idea. Every week the paper carries a new pledge for you to sign up to. All of the pledges involve ways of cutting your carbon footprint and becoming less impactful on the natural resources of the world. This week’s pledge is to switch from bottled to tap water.

Tread Lightly is a community of people, and includes a blog section where you can join in debates and share CO2-saving ideas.

The aim of the site, and the pledges, is to enable people to step up their efforts to reduce their own CO2 emissions, to track the combined efforts of the community, and provide a space in which you can be reassured you’re not the only one who cares and is willing to change.

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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