Comments on: 10:10

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:17:02 +0000

It’s hard cutting back by 10% every time someone reminds you that you should. For instance, turning down the heating by 1 degree will reduce your heating bill by 10%. Well, I’ve done that a couple of times, and I guess I could cut it down by 100% by turning it down to 6, but I don’t fancy it really.
And we use a car almost every day, mostly for quite short journeys, although our total weekly commute to work is 6 miles.
.-= Jan´s last blog ..Several surprises =-.

By: Allie

Allie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:47:39 +0000

It is complicated. I went on some govt website and it suggested we should buy a dishwasher and microwave?! Apparently these are more efficient than washing up by hand or cooking with gas. But, surely, it didn’t take into account the energy used in the production of those objects? So far this year we’ve put up a thick curtain and started using a draft excluder. Hardly very impressive efforts…

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:18:23 +0000

Sigh. It is hard isn’t it, when you start thinking about the practicalities. It is so annoying that our society seems to be set up to make it difficult to do so many of these things, especially managing without a car.
One thing which does help me is to think of it as improving our life rather than as ‘cutting down’ or ‘cutting back’. If you feel, even on a subconscious level that you’e missing out or depriving yourself or making life ahrder for yourself then it is much harder to do things. If you can frame them in a way in which it is a positive choice, and doesn’t add yet another job to an already busy life, then it’s easier to make changes, I’ve found.
.-= Liz´s last blog ..Imbolc =-.