Green Living
Your Choices
You choose what happens in this country and your area in what you buy, how you travel, how you keep you and your families warm and fed. Most of the choices you can make are simple things that can be changed without any lesser quality of life. is a list of ways to think about making your life more green, and the country more sustainable.
In The Home
- Change Energy supplier to one that offers a Green Tariff - a pound or two more a month for a less fragile power grid in the country.
- If possible look into getting Solar Panels on your roof, either for water heating or feeding back into the grid - a great way of ensuring your households energy bills stay low.
- Recycle as much of your home waste as you can - helps your area deal with waste locally without filling up the country side with plastic packaging.
- Look for the energy efficiency markings on electrical goods.
How you shop
- Try to buy as much of your foods from more local shops, likely to be supplied by more local suppliers, and look out for farmers markets and organic food from UK sources.
- Consider how long the product will last, save up for more durable products rather than cheaper more disposable goods.
Transport
- Think about fuel economy if you can when considering the next car you buy.
- Look at Smart cars, twice the mileage, twice the economy, half the emissions.
- Try to take the Bus or walk or ride a bike for as many short journeys as possible.
There are many ways you can change your lifestyle habits slightly to help make our world a better place. But the Best thing you can do, is be conscious of your choices.