Category: Household
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Paving in the garden can be bad thing for the environment. When used excessively, paving causes multiple problems for the environment. It exacerbates the problems with flooding and this is more of a concern with extreme weather becoming more frequent in the future. Concrete paving only absorbs 5% of rainwater and because rainwater has nowhere…
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How you manage your garden contributes to your carbon footprint and has an important impact on biodiversity. One of the things we have to deal with in our garden is getting pests under control. The main way to get pests under control is usually using pesticides, but using pesticides has many disadvantages for our environment.…
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One of the main gardening tasks we do is to taking out the weeds from our garden. But you would be surprised to know that how we take out weeds has an impact on our carbon footprint and the biodiversity in our garden. What are weeds? Weeds are any unwanted plant growing in an area…
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Managing your garden in the right way will support the ecosystem that is struggling with climate change. Increasing carbon emissions is creating a double disaster of a climate change crisis and a biodiversity crisis. There has been a big drop in wildlife globally and we are on track to lose over a quarter of species…
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Since the start of the Iran war and the spike in global oil and gas prices, more than doubling their price and no end in sight, demand for solar panels has rocketed around the world. The energy crisis will increase household energy bills and inflation everywhere, making the cost of living higher. Solar panels can…
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A new season has arrived and new weather gives us different options to reduce our carbon footprint. The Royal Meteorological Society states changing weather patterns means there will be drier, warmer Springs. The consequence of this is that we are more vulnerable to droughts, and more likelihood of an ecological mismatch with plants blooming before…
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Spring has arrived and there is opportunity for those with gardens to start gardening activities. What we do in our gardens is really important because domestic gardens combine more land in the UK than all of the UK National Nature Reserves, so we can make a difference. Creating a low carbon garden that boosts biodiversity…
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Heat pumps are not a popular idea amongst the public in the UK. A survey suggested recently at about half the population would not consider buying one. There many reasons people think this: heat pumps are considered too expensive, noisy and difficult to implement. However, if there is slow adoption of heat pumps by households,…
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We are in the middle of winter, so how do we stay warm and not waste energy heating our homes? What is important in any energy efficient home is having heating controls. Heating controls sets the temperature of your house and tells your heating system when to come on and off, so you do not…
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The average British person produces 11 tonnes of carbon emissions a year. In our article ‘What actions make a big difference?’ about lifestyle changes that make a big difference to your carbon footprint. There are actions which are more well known to reduce our carbon footprint, but they do not make as much of an…