Tag: green living
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Eating less meat is a route to reducing your carbon footprint. Cutting it out altogether can reduce your carbon footprint by 1 ton a year. But there is an exception is this argument. A vegetarian meal is not automatically better for the environment if it contains lots of cheese. Cheese contains cow’s milk. Dairy cows…
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Do you need to spend tens of thousands of pounds to reduce your carbon footprint? It is well known that expensive heat pumps and electric cars reduce our carbon footprint. However, what is less well understood is that adopting eco-friendly habits can improve your finances and you don’t need to spend any money or compromise…
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How can you throw a party that keeps down carbon emissions? The events industry contributes 10% to global carbon emissions every year, the equivalent of the carbon emissions from the USA. Make throwing a party eco-friendlier by following the tips below. These actions will reduce the carbon emissions produced from what you use at your…
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To halve emissions by 2030, no one would do more than one return flight per year. But the number of flights taken across society is very unequal. In Britain, half of the public never take a flight whilst 15% take more than one flight a year. The temptation to go to exotic places is high,…
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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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Waste experts have coined a phrase to describe people putting unrecyclable goods in the recycling bin in the hope it will be recycled and therefore, in their mind, have done the right thing. It is known as ‘wishcycling’. Surveys show that 80% of the public have tried to recycle something that can’t be recycled and…
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If you want to reduce our carbon footprint from washing dishes, what method should we use? Should we wash the dishes ourselves or use a dishwasher? Research from Professor Bernes-Lee show easy ways to wash our dishes in a more energy efficient way. Should we use the dishwasher or hand wash dishes? Research shows that…
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One of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to switch off lights in rooms that you are not using. Lighting your home makes up 10% of your residential carbon footprint. There is an opportunity to make significant savings on your carbon footprint by choosing the right bulb and being less careless leaving…
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Food waste contributes 12% to greenhouse gas emissions globally. We waste between 30-40% of our food each year and in the UK, the amount of consumable food we waste is worth £284 per person. Food waste makes a large part of all the waste you make, as we throw away 3 kg of food per…
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When we have a shower, it adds to our carbon emissions we create from our household. But how can you reduce your carbon footprint from having a shower? This depends on the time you spend in the shower and the type of showerhead and boiler you use. It is a very easy way to cut…