Keep your international trips to a minimum as long-haul flights create more carbon. If you are travelling overseas, choose an airline with a good offsetting programme.
Cycling to work or school one day in a five day week will result in up to a 20% reduction in CO2.
Open curtains in the morning to let in the sunlight and warm the room and close them at night to keep in the heat.
Enjoy local holidays, not only do you minimise your carbon footprint that way, but you also enrich local communities.
Make sure to recycle as landfill sites cost money both to develop and operate and are a source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Always try to buy in bulk when shopping you’ll save on the packaging. And buy local and organic, its better for you and uses no pesticides and harmful chemicals.
If we recycled another 10% of our printer and toner cartridges, we would cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 100 million pounds - the equivalent of taking 10,000 cars off the road for an entire year!
For every 3 meetings held by video conference instead of flying cross-country, it would be like taking a car completely off the road for an entire year. |
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Consider buying a laptop for your next computer upgrade; they use much less energy than desktop computers.
We encourage you to set Blackle.com as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black.
Carpool or organise a bus the next time you go an event or concert and reduce your carbon footprint.
Always try and car pool, it saves in petrol and reduces your carbon footprint and plan your routes ahead by using the least busiest!
Computers use up to 70% less electricity when you put them to sleep instead of using a screensaver.
Leaving a computer monitor on overnight wastes as much energy as making 800 A4 photocopies.
If just 1 million homes switched entirely to solar power, we’d cut yearly CO2 emissions by 7 million tons.
If just 1 million people cut down their trash by 10%, we could reduce our yearly CO2 emissions by as much as 50,000 tons.
Always unplug your PC at the power source.
By purchasing digital music online you can help conserve the oil consumed in transporting CDs to and from the store. |
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Remember to switch to compact fluorescent bulbs and save on your electricity bills. Grab a shower instead of a bath; the average shower only uses 35 litres of water compared to a bath using about 80 liters.
Install low flow showerheads and sink aerators to reduce hot water use.
Globally, we use as many as 1 million new plastic bags every MINUTE at a cost of 2.2 billion gallons of oil a year. Go reusable whenever, wherever.
The energy saved when we recycle a glass bottle can keep a light burning for 4 hours! By recycling glass, paper, plastic and tins, you save our natural resources and energy.
Motion sensor lights can reduce your average energy consumption by as much as 33%.
Encourage green spending by asking your retailers to move the eco-friendly products to eye-level and grouping them.
BEAT THE HEAT: Geyser thermostats are often set much higher than necessary. A 10 degree reduction saves the earth 272Kg of carbon emissions!
Try on organic, it’s less energy intensive to produce and manufacture than clothes made from synthetic materials or doused in chemicals during production. |
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