10,000+ pledges and counting!! |
Over 10,000 pledges have now been made by visitors to the Big Green Switch website to cut their carbon and live a greener lifestyle.
The ten most popular pledges made so far have been:
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Posted by Big Green Switch on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:57:00 PST |
Staying cool and green this summer |
I heard a statistic quoted last week that said that sales of home air conditioning units are up 16% year-on-year, a worrying part of the vicious circle of global warming.
We all use energy, which cr...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:14:00 PST |
Let there be (low-energy) light! |
After over three years of saying we're going to do it, we finally got around to putting low-energy lightbulbs into our light fittings at the weekend.
Technically speaking, we've had low-energy lightb...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST |
End of the junk mail? |
It's estimated that over 1 million tonnes of junk mail is distributed throughout the UK every year. A million tonnes of pointless paper pushed, unrequested, through people's letterboxes, destined to ...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:42:00 PST |
First green step is in the bag... |
I've seen the future - and, scarily, it's hiding underneath our staircase.
A quick count of our ridiculously-large carrier bag collection, housed in the cupboard underneath our stairs, reveals that w...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:40:00 PST |
Doing the recycling maths soon adds up |
A job already half done is generally normally more welcoming that something that needs doing from scratch I find. With that in mind, I've started looking first at what green activities we're already ...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:39:00 PST |
My carbon footprint? Size 11 I think... |
Having heard and read a lot about carbon footprints recently, I'd long since been meaning to get around to working out my own. So, with the rest of the family settled happily in front of the Easter M...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:36:00 PST |
Sorry, and you are...? |
Reflecting on my first blog post, I feel I should perhaps have made something more of a proper introduction rather than having just rudely started talking at you as I did!
So here we go. I guess we're...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:34:00 PST |
Time to pull my green finger out |
2007 seems to have been awash so far with TV programmes, news stories and internet features about climate change and global warming - each emphasising, more strongly than ever before, the likely cons...
Posted by Big Green Switch on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:33:00 PST |
