What has been the most important global issue of the last 10 years? Poverty? No. Financial Crisis? Not even close. The Environment? Yes, yes and yes again. Elections have been won and lost because of this issue, BP are currently suffering devastating financial and Public Relations disasters because of their environmental legacy, deforestation is having huge consequences on environments, global warming is in the news every week. We are beginning to realise the mess that the world is in.

This sort of ‘Global Issue’ seems so far removed from us, so far removed from our homes and our communities, but in fact the reverse is true and people are beginning to realise it. Individually we are beginning to take note; most of us regularly recycle, we don’t go to the dump any more – we go to recycling depots, we all complain about over-zealous packaging in our consumables, environmentally friendly products have been outselling, cheaper, less sustainable products.

One of the smallest, and yet paradoxically most effective ways we can help the environment is by changing our lightbulbs to energy saving lightbulbs. More and more people have been doing this as sales show and they are reaping the rewards – saving as much as 80% from their energy bill. Yet there is more that can be done. More and more modern, bespoke lights (especially in the kitchen for some reason) feature LED Lights; they look sleek and small, they have a sharp brightness and work exceptionally well with dimmers; however, most of us don’t yet look for energy saving LEDs.

Well I am here to let you know that LED lights can be every bit as energy saving as conventional energy saving light bulbs. And you have more of them than you think – take a look around your kitchen.

Another area that we use LED lighting is in the garden, security lights, pond lighting and decking lights are becoming more and more popular in LED lighting – let’s make the energy saving version the only bulb to buy!

Conclusion

We use far more LED lights in our home and garden than you would think – just take a look around your house to find out. We need to change our mentality so that we start thinking about energy efficient LED lighting as the sustainable and only alternative.

Keith Patterson invites you to save a little money and do your bit for the environment by replacing all of your traditional GLS lamps with energy-saving light bulbs.

To find out more about energy saving light bulbs visit our website: http://www.ecofriendlylightbulbs.co.uk/pages.php?pageid=4 or call for more information on 07833 641094.

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Trying to live green and eco friendly can be really difficult, especially with so many conflicting messages on environmental issues. Many people are left confounded by decrees from some environmental groups suggesting that nearly every aspect of our lives could be environmentally damaging, but many of these claims are either misguided, have not scientific background or are just plain wrong.

Many of these arguments can also be quite damaging to the environmental movement in general as people can be often put off getting involved, buy eco friendly products or attempting to live in a greener way because they believe it requires extreme sacrifices or a lot of hard work.

For instance people often claim that motoring is extremely damaging to the environment and we should all switch to public transport.

Whilst nobody would argue that vehicles don’t damage the environment people still need to get around. Wasteful journeys are certainly not very eco-friendly but a small family car with three people on-board will be certainly better for the environment than a bus with only one or two passengers.

Often public transport can be a better environmental solution but not always and often it is not practical for everybody. And with more and more emphasis by car companies on environmental technology, motoring is getting less damaging all the time. By combining journeys, car sharing and driving economically we can also cut down on the environmental damage we can cause.

Being vegetarian is often cited as being a greener way of life too as the gases produced by intensive farming of animals and the land used to rear them is a reason why non vegetarians could be damaging the planet. But the environmental impact of farming is a far more complex matter than that.

Farming can cause Deforestation

We all have to eat and while growing vegetables produces less greenhouse gas it uses a lot more land as meat is far more efficient a fuel than vegetables. And with more and more rainforest being swallowed up to grow products like soya, vegetarianism can also be claimed to be environmentally damaging

Food should be a matter of choice but when we shop for food we can help the environment by buying organic and local produce. Even clothing can be organic or from sustainable sources like bamboo.

Richard N Williams is interested in green innovations and writes about them. Please visit our website if you are interested in eco clothes or other eco-friendly products.
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