Tag: lifesytle
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Heatwaves are going to be much more common in the future. Rather than being an occurrence every few years, by 2050 they will be happening every summer. What is a heatwave? A heatwave is a period of abnormally hot weather lasting at least two days. What is considered hot weather depends on the typical temperature…
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How can you do gardening in a way that benefits the environment and makes your life easier? Manicured lawns are very popular but maintaining a manicured lawn is difficult and time consuming. The regular mowing, watering and weedkilling takes a lot of effort and is back-breaking work. But there is an opportunity to create a…
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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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Climate change would be a lot easier to solve if all we had to do was to get our energy use from renewable resources. Except electrifying energy use with technology like heat pumps, solar panels and electric vehicles would increase demand for energy exponentially. The Centre of Research for Energy Demand estimates we would have…
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Low carbon Easter It is Easter holiday and this often leads to many gatherings with friends and family and religious activities. What are the main ways you can cut your carbon footprint with your actions in this festive season? Buy what you need If you are going to buy Easter eggs or do Easter activities,…
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Cars is the main mode of transport contributing to carbon emissions, especially for those of us who do not live in cities with good public transport links. Decarbonising our transport network is key to reaching Net Zero and how we travel really matters to our environment. A study from Environmental International analysing commutes in 800…