Reducing your energy footprint - preview
Anne Brewer of Dorking Meeting writes from her experience at home
Both satisfaction and frustration have accompanied our efforts to reduce our household's energy footprint – the impact on the planet, including contribution to climate change, of our energy use for heating, lighting and appliances We began our efforts in 1975 and, spurred on by the increasing problems facing our planet, have kept going The financial cost has been quite high but we have saved by living simply and been lucky to have two small legacies to help out
Insulating your home is a good start and our first steps were installing rockwool cavity wall insulation and three inches of attic insulation Now, belatedly keeping up with recommendations, we're adding another five inches using Warmcel (made from recycled newspaper!) Ten inches is ideal but we use our loft for storage and with joists only four inches high raising insulation to eight inches involved much time-consuming DIY! We draught-proofed everything we could and in 2002 installed double-glazed windows with FSC wood frames from Green Building Store – we try to minimise the environmental impacts of the energy-saving products that we use
Anne Brewer
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