Sustainable Consumption

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Legal validation: 7/4/2011

At home

You might be interested and surprised to learn that, after industry and transport, the residential sector is one of the biggest consumers of energy.

Choosing a home

Building, renovating and designing a home

Furnishing a home

Maintaining and Keeping a Home

My Garden

Gardeners talk about their love of nature, but in reality what there doing is manipulating nature. In the following sections we will give you tips to make your garden more environmentally friendly. Read more

Living with my family

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There are lots of ways of being energy efficient at home.

For example lowering your thermostat by just 1ºC will knock 10% off your heating bill. You can turn the lights off when leaving a room or switch appliances off rather than leaving them on standby. This will save up to 20% of your appliances’ energy use.

Get together and share resources

Is there something you could do with neighbours and friends to promote sustainable lifestyle? You could try a common compost bin in the yard, planting trees or bushes, start a car-pool… for more information click here.

Make your home more eco-friendly

If you live in an apartment, there is not much you can do about the building. But you can always save water, not use extra electrical heaters, use eco-labelled chemicals when cleaning and so on. But when buying or building your own house you can check on eco-friendly materials

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