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1. Turn appliances off standby (this uses around 40 per cent of electricity just to keep the red light on).
2. Unplug your mobile phone. 95 per cent of the electricity consumed by a charger is wasted, usually by leaving it switched on and plugged in when the phone is charged.
3. Change to Compact Fluorescent (eco bulbs), which are 75 per cent more efficient, and last 12 times longer.  
4. Switch your energy supply to a green energy company, such as ‘Good Energy’ or ‘Ecotricity’, a company which actually invests in new renewables rather than just trading emissions quotas.Turn your thermostat down by just one degree, saving 235kg of CO2.
5. Compost food waste:  60 per cent of the average bin could be composted instead of decomposing in landfill and generating methane (a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than CO2).

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.” Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

We need to start planning NOW…

     for the Island’s future when the price of oil and petrol starts rising steeply. This will do the same to their derivatives like plastics, drugs and other chemicals (fertilisers, weedkillers, and millions more). And it will put up the price of travel, importation (by ferry), exportation (by ferry), commuting (by ferry)…

There is much we can do as individuals, teams, village groups, parish and town councils, churches, clubs, associations, workmates, businesses, and so on.

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