What can my household or community do? What effect do my travel choices have?
Individuals are responsible for about half of the carbon emissions in the Northwest. We all have a stake in combating climate change and we each have to start taking responsibility to adapt the way we live and travel.
Are you a Low-Carbon Citizen?
Each of us can contribute to tackling climate change and become
a 'low carbon citizen' - Simple choices about our houses
and transport decisions make a 
difference.
Maybe you're thinking of taking action for the first time? Or perhaps you've already taken some simple steps at home? Whatever stage you're at, the Energy Saving Trust's website contains many simple and free things you can do right now to take action on climate change.
In June 2007 Defra (the governments Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs) launched its Act on CO2 capaign, part of
this is its Carbon Calculator. To calculate your Carbon Footprint
Click here
Blackle
Black computer screens use less energy than white screens. When
your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google page,
your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes
only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy
saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking
into account the huge number of page views, according to his
calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
In a response to this article Heap Media created a black version of
its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as
the white version, but with a lower energy consumption. As well as
using less energy, everytime you use the page it will remind you to
be more energy conscious!!
Visit http://www.blackle.com/ to view the site
