Energy Efficient Lightbulbs

Eco Fact: Did you know that every day more solar energy falls on the Earth than the total amount of energy that the planet’s 5.9 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years.

Reduce your energy use: save yourself money in the long run and reduce your footprint on the planet. If everybody bought just one energy efficient lightbulb, we could shut down a power station.

10 ways to go green in the kitchen!

1. Ditch the bottles - Bottled water is pricey and uses a lot of fuel to transport as well as to make and store all those bottles. Use what come out of your tap instead. Get a good filter to boost purity.

2. Buy Local - Rediscover the bounty of the area that you live in. Seek out Farmers Markets and Country shows where you can buy locally produced products and help boost local shopping.

3. Dispose of Disposables - Instead of relying on single use containers, get real dishes and wash them! The resources savedwill really add up.

4. Banish Excess Packaging - Buy things in larger sizes if you know that you use them all the time. Try to select items thathave less plastic and extra filler stuffed into them.

5. Bring your own bags - It's so simple, plastic and paper bags take resources to produce and distribute and end up as litter.

6. Get a green thumb - Growing your own plants not only helps soak up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but it can help clean toxins from the air and provide habitat for wildlife.

7. Eat less meat - Modern meat is energy and resource intensive and factory farms are huge polluters. Eating lower on the food chain reduces these problems.

8. Use appliances wisely - Get an energy audit (doing one yourself is easy) unplug unused devices and purchase an energy meter to see just what you are saving

9. Cook! - Plan meals ahead of time so you are not scrambling to pick up something convenient, which is likely to be less healthy and wrapped in more packaging.

10. Become Educated - Learn to save money and time by reducing waste and unneeded consumption, whether that's water, energy, paper, food, travel and more.

Eco Facts About Cars:

• There are 38 million empty car seats on the roads every day
• 58% of car trips are under 5 miles and 25% are less than 2 miles
• Road traffic produces one fifth of the Uk's carbon dioxide

Eco Fact Of The Week

It's estimated that Sussex generates 8,849,000 kg of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent to filling 50,000 double decker buses or nearly 320 million party balloons.

Happy Easter

We hope that you have a relaxing Easter Break and don't over indulge too much on chocolate! On an Eco front be mindful of how you dispose of your Easter Egg Packaging.

Eco Fact: Around 60% of your rubbish can be recycled – but only 11% is actually recycled.

Try to follow the simple moto: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" which is also the name of a book packed with ideas for cutting your consumption, reducing your rubbish, reusing and recycling. It also tells you where your old plastic goes to, what happens to your old glass jars, how they handle waste in other countries.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is an invaluable guide for anyone who want to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste.

Happy Easter

Eco Fact Of The Week

The total mileage travelled per person has increased significantly since the mid 1980s. This is because, whilst the total number of trips made by people has remained fairly static, average trip lengths have increased by a quarter from 5.2 miles to 6.6 miles.