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Saving Energy and Reducing Carbon Emissions
This category of Go Green focuses on ways in which you can reduce wasteful energy consumption in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (usually referred to as carbon emissions in the UK). This is one of the most important areas of eco-friendliness. The vast majority of energy in the world is created by burning fuel that causes the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This poisons our air and water and is strongly believed to cause global warming.
This is a very serious issue. In this section of Go Green we discuss ways in which we can begin to tackle this problem.
How you can help reduce national carbon emissions with a simple idea
Friday, May 16th, 2008This is a very simple idea that businesses could make use of to reduce transport associated carbon emissions and potentially save money and time. If your business regularly orders similar types of products, such as office supplies it’s likely that you could benefit from this simple idea.
Green Spaces
Photo by DeMatze.
How conserving electricity is bad for the environment (sometimes)
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Which is more eco-friendly; electric hand dryers or hand towels?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008In this article we are going to try to determine which is more eco-friendly out of paper hand towels and electric hand dryers. There are two main factors involved in this comparison. One, carbon emissions produced as a result of delivery lorry driving and electricity usage. And secondly, waste disposal of the various materials.
Green Energy
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007The Consortium has been lucky enough to secure its electricity from 100% renewable sources (Green Energy). Unfortunately, there is a shortage of renewable capacity in the UK at the moment. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we might encourage producers to bring more capacity on line?