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Climate Change and personal responsibility:

What can YOU do about

climate change?

  • Transport
  • Waste
  • Lighting
  • Heating
  • Renewable Energy
  • Environmentally Friendly Products

  Plenty is the straight answer...
  

 
A FEW KEY AREAS  STAND OUT: 



 

TRANSPORT IMAGE
      TRANSPORT

 
 

 
HEATING IMAGE                                                       
    HEATING

 

Using Renewable Energy




 LIGHTING IMAGE
           LIGHTING 
 
 
 
 
 

 

RUBBIS IMAGE
        WASTE

 

ENERGY INFORMATION

 

Environmentally Friendly Products

 

Climate Change touches upon just every aspect of contemporary life from transport to heating
to diet. As one report noted 'Every time we turn on the gas or electric heater, we are directly
or indirectly burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases, particularly CO2.'
Every time we travel by car we release CO2 from the petrol or diesel burned in the engine, as
well as gases that produce low level ozone, another greenhouse gas. When we eat meat or rice,
we indirectly contribute to the production of methane from belching cows, other animals and from
rice paddies. When we buy food and other organic material such as paper, it decays in rubbish
tips to produce methane. When we buy fridges they might use CFCs, which as well as being
ozone-depleting chemicals are also potential greenhouse gases. This makes the problem at
simultanesously a very daunting one to address but also leaves scope for action in every part of life.
 

 

Calculate your own carbon dioxide emissions

For the UK: http://www.carboncalculator.org/

or: http://www.co2.org/CO2_calc.asp

 

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
   
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