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What can I do to tackle climate change?

Everyone has a role to play in tackling climate change whether at an international, national or local level.

To find out what you can do as an individual why not start by seeing what your carbon footprint (opens in a new window) is and how you can help reduce it.

Saving energy in the home

Using renewable energy

Find out how you could power and heat your home or business using renewable energy.  For more information download the renewable energy factsheets for Dorset.

Travelling wisely

Find out how you can reduce the impacts of your travel by visiting the Energy Saving Trust (opens in a new window)  website, you may also choose to start car sharing.

Using local food and goods

Find out where you can buy local food and products (opens in a new window) .

Details of local farmers markets and farm shops in Dorset can be obtained from:

Reducing waste

Find out how you can reduce and recycle your waste.

Community action

There are also many community based climate change organisations, as well as, issued based sustainability groups, throughout Dorset that are doing excellent work in their communities to tackle climate change. To find out more about these and how you can get involved see: Dorset Agenda 21 (da21) and  Dorset Agenda 21 (opens in a new window) .

Businesses

Discover how you can save energy and reduce your carbon footprint in your business by following this pratical advice for business (opens in a new window)  , please see the following tips on how else you can help:

  • Carry out a Waste Audit to see what cost savings you can make on energy and waste (contact  Envirowise (opens in a new window) for more information or see if they can visit your business)

  • Encourage your staff  to minimise and recycle as much of their waste as possible

  • Old mobile phones and empty cartridges can be recycled for free

  • Save energy by switching off PC's and monitors, particularly when staff are away from their desks for long periods and during evenings and weekends (a lot of energy is wasted by leaving your computer on standby)

  • By switching off your PC and monitor you could be cutting down on running costs from £60 to just £15 per year  (your screensaver does not save energy, in fact some screensavers use more energy)

  • Turn lights off when leaving the room.  (It is a myth that turning fluorescent lights on and off uses more energy than leaving them on)

  • Encourage staff to be responsible, nominate someone to check that everything is switched off when leaving at night

  • Turn down the radiator rather than open the window

  • Where possible, reduce the amount of waste produced in the first place

  • Print/copy on double sided paper.  Do you need to be printing? 

  • Re-use paper for notes

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