Retail Offsets - Other Ways To Reduce Your Emissions

Reducing your emissions is the first step in reducing your impact upon the Earth's atmosphere. The best part is, as well as improving the health of our planet, these tips also save you money.

A few easy and affordable tips:

• Switch off lights and appliances when not in use.
• Replace incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent ones.
• Maintain your home's insulation and the seals around windows, doors and rooftops to prevent heating and cooling loss.
• When making home improvements, choose designs and installations that have high efficiency ratings, such as appliances with low power stand-by.
• Take a shower instead of a bath.
• Change leaky sink taps and fit a water-saving showerhead.
• Rather than use a clothes dryer, hang out your clothes to dry.
• Maintain the health of your car to ensure fuel efficiency.
• Carpool with friends and co-workers, take public transport, walk or ride a bike to work.
• Make it fun. Engage the kids, the family, the neighbourhood to come up with new and unique ways to reduce emissions.

Need more ideas?

Check out these websites for further ways to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions:

www.greenhouse.gov.au

www.sustainability.vic.gov.au

www.energyrating.gov.au/con3.html

http://kidscan2007.ca