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100 things you can do to reduce your carbon emissions

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    What's Bloom?

    Want to be more climate-friendly, but not sure how to go about it? You need Bloom.

    1. Discover what you can do.

    2. Choose the actions to suit you.

    3. Do the actions you've chosen.

  • What works

    What works?

    Being cleaner and more energy efficient can never be a bad idea. But how? You need Bloom.

    Choose your actions based on how easy, how popular or how much impact they'll have. Then do them.

  • It's Not Easy Being Green

    It's Not Easy Being Green

    Dick Strawbridge and Lauren Laverne team up with a different celebrity every week to find out how to be green.

    From weddings to funerals, shopping to off-setting and solar to soap-nuts, this series is jam-packed with everything you need to know.

    Wednesdays at 8pm, BBC Two

Switching to a laptop

Last week, a survey revealed that UK housewives spend half their leisure time online - more than the hyperconnected Chinese. Will ditching the desktop in favour of a laptop cut your energy bills?

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Is it worth recycling? What is fair trade? Take a closer look at the burning issues.

Strange but true

From composting toilets to farting less, find out about some of the whackier things you can do.

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Buying local, sustainable wood

What's the carbon footprint of a beaver? These lumberjacks of the animal world came under fire recently for felling trees in Cornwall, but at least they dined on local, sustainable wood.

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We have saved at least 15% on our electricity bill since we bought an energy meter and not only that, we can now tell when the kids have a light on when they are meant to be asleep!
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