Archive for the ‘Energy saving tips’ Category

It’s Energy Saving Week - one of the biggest UK energy awareness campaigns.

This year, the theme is Waste. Melting ice caps and polar bears aside, wasting

In the run up to the crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, the 10:10 campaign caught my eye.

The brainchild of Franny Armstrong, whose film…

Not long ago - about four blog posts ago, in fact - I wrote about how painting your roof white could save one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions. I’ve just discovered that having a green roof could…

This week is Energy Saving Week. In an effort to save energy and reduce some of our bills I’ve been on even more of an energy saving mission myself over the last few weeks.

“If the roof of every building was painted white, what impact would it have on the albedo of the Earth”. Over the last few years I’ve mentioned this to a few climate scientists and they’ve looked quizzical but then nodded…” he said.

This summer, everyone seems to have been talking about “hypermiling” - the American name given to the practice of managing to squeeze the maximum MPGs out of a tank of petrol by changing your driving habits…

After a slow start, the issue of greener computing is beginning to gather momentum. Read my five suggestions for using our computers more efficiently…

If you have a second, take a look at these great pictures in today’s Guardian from satellites of our changing earth… They’re from a new book called Fragile Earth. Scary they may be, but strangely beautiful too.

Did anyone notice that spot of good news last week? We’re so used to environmental news being relentlessly bad, but last week the UK government has calculated that British greenhouse emissions are down by 0.5%.

OK, so you’ve turned down the thermostat two or three degrees to cut your carbon footprint, but it’s January and much as you’d like to think you’re the new Ernest Shackleton, you have to admit it, it’s bloody nippy. Here are Nigel’s Five Top Tips for staying warm in 2008.