bemoreeco

This is a must read. Lucy Siegle, quite possibly the UK’s top environmental journalist, and all-round eco-advocate, has explained why you need to green during the credit crunch. Lucy tackles the notion that being green is too expensive. Instead, Lucy points out several easy ways that most households can save money.

“Take food waste, for example – the issue on everyone’s lips, including Gordon Brown’s, but languishing in everyone’s bin bags. Were we to bin the expensive habit of chucking away a third of what we buy rather than the actual produce, then we could stop dispatching 4.1m tonnes of edible food to landfill, stop the inherent greenhouse gas emissions and save the cold, hard currency.

[...] Nigel Berman (nigelsecostore.com) suggests a startup kit consisting of energy-saving light bulbs, a Radiator Booster™, Ecoballs™ (instead of washing powder – although, it must be said, these are made from polluting PVC), an Ecobutton™ (it shuts down a desktop computer) and a standby kit (it turns all remote-controlled appliances off standby). The startup kit can easily slash £367 off the average household bill.“

The article is a great read, and I strongly urge you to spend twenty minutes investigating if you can implement a few of the great ideas.