Antarctica Project

It's about cutting power use and consumption generally - not so simple in a world where consumption is often admired and sometimes envied and where power use can make life more convenient or more interesting.

As a rule of thumb though anything you can do to use less energy and buy locally produced items of quality rather than cheap and cheerful in quantity will help. There are many guides as to what to do, some very effective, others less so, the most effective are:

• Get a less polluting car and use it less often.
  
  
• Get more efficient refrigeration - fridges and freezers are on 24/7/365 and as a result use the most energy of any domestic appliance.
  
  
• Reduce the amount of heating your house or office needs, use insulation, stop draughts, turn the thermostat down 1 degree.
  
  
• Reduce water heating requirements, takes showers not baths, take normal showers, not power-showers, get a more efficient washing machine.
  
  
• Get low energy light bulbs and turn them off when not needed.
  
  
• Fly less or not at all.