How to live green easily
I am a lazy person, so for me doing extra things to be green was hard. However I have come up with my top ten tips on how to make little changes to your life, which you won’t even notice, but will be of benefit to both the environment and yourself.
1. If you can adjust your heating, try switching it off for the night. You are asleep under a warm duvet anyway, so why waste the power heating up your house/flat when you won’t notice if it is a bit colder?
2. Turn your heating down a few degrees. You won’t notice the difference, but it will save a lot of energy.
3. Change all your lamps to energy efficient ones. Once again, you won’t notice any difference, but the electrcity bill will be significantly reduced, as well as your carbon output.
4. If you have to quickly wash your hands, just use cold water. Hot water takes time to warm up before you can feel the difference, and most likely you would have switched the tap off by the time it is noticeably warm anyway. So not switching it on at all will not make any difference, but it will save energy.
5. Don’t boil more water than you need in a kettle. If you are only going to have one cup of tea, why spend the energy to warm up five cups worth of water?
6. Switch your electronics off at the plug when you are not using them. Even on stand by most electronic equipment, such as the telly or the stereo, use up to 2/3 of the energy they would use if they were on!
7. If you ride a bike on shorter journeys instead of driving, it will not only help the environment, but you will become healtheir as well.
8. Instead of driving to a supermarket to do your shopping, order your food online. The can delivering your food will be more carbon efficient as it will be delivering to many other customers at the same time.
9. Take showers instead of baths. Not only will you save water, you will also be massaged by the shower while you are relaxing.
10. Use a kettle to boil water for your washing up. It is more energy efficient than your heater system.
If you really want to make a difference, then one of the biggest effect you can have is to encourage your place of work to get a energy specialist in. Enigin PLC are a specialist company which has saved massive amount of resources and money for hundreds of companies all over the world.
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