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Ten More Ways to Stop Climate Change

If biodiesel is the first step you have ever made towards being more environmentally friendly, or even if it is one of many, you may find the following useful.

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 1) Go home
Here's are a few obvious starters. Install draught excluders and insulate your loft. Buy low energy light bulbs. Change to an environmentally friendly electricity supplier examples are Ecotricity and NPower Juice.



2) Go to work
Think about how you get to work. Could you car share, use public transport, cycle or even walk? Transport is a huge contributor to climate change. If you do have to drive why not join the:

Ethical Transport Association
A breakdown and recovery service with a strong ethical and environmental policy. You can search their site for information on car sharing. www.eta.co.uk/

Could you make your workplace more environmentally friendly by starting a recycling scheme, insulating the building or buying your electricity from a green supplier? Get your workmates on side.


3) Go on holiday
Air travel is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. Why not go on holiday in the UK or anywhere else you don't need to fly to for that matter?

Why not calculate your personal impact on the environment or 'Eco-Footprint' at Earthday?


4) Go shopping
The products you buy can have a huge impact on climate change. Simple ideas include buying second hand, buying things with less packaging, refusing carrier bags, using reusable cloth shopping bags and buying goods which have been produced locally. The true experts in this field are based in Manchester ...

Ethical Consumer
We'll leave the rest of the advice on shopping to them!
www.ethicalconsumer.org


5) Put the rubbish out
Recycling often uses less energy than making new goods. Don't take things you don't want to the tip – they could end up in landfill. You can give away anything from TVs to wardrobes to sofas on Manchester Freecycle. The two websites below should help you recycle as much as possible. And if you've any waste cooking oil bring it with you when you come to fill up we'll give it to our supplier who will turn it into biodiesel for us.

Emerge Recycling
www.emergemanchester.co.uk

Manchester Freecycle groups.yahoo.com/group/ManchesterFreeCycle


6) Go to your mates and families houses
And while you're round there be enthusiastic about saving the planet. Don't go on about it all the time or try to make people feel guilty: you'll put people off! Wait for them to show some interest and ease them into it, gently ...


7) Make some more friends
Join an environmental campaign group. Individual action is good but you can be much more effective if you join up with other like minded people and campaigning is much more fun if you've got some good company.

Friends of the Earth Manchester
The local FoE group have been very supportive of our filling station. In 2004 Friends of the Earth ran a national campaign to encourage local filling stations to stock biodiesel
www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/

Rising Tide
This organisation focus on action to stop climate change.
risingtide.org.uk/

Greenpeace
Greenpeace support the use of biodiesel as part of their climate change campaign
www.greenpeace.org.uk


8) Go back to school
Educate yourself – keep reading websites and literature about climate change and keep looking at your lifestyle. These are good local Manchester based websites to start the learning process.

Environment Network for Manchester www.manchesterenvironment.net

Networking Newsletter Project www.networkingnewsletter.org.uk

The Basement thebasement.clearerchannel.org/community/index.php

Manchester is My Planet
www.manchesterismyplanet.com

These websites are good sources of information on the many environmental initiatives in Manchester (and have all given valuable support to our cooperative).


9) Get out in the garden
The ultimate way to reduce food miles is to grow your own food. Even if you've no garden you can have house plants including herbs. Houseplants can make the air in your home cleaner. Trees can make local air quality better. Plants absorb CO2. The more greenery: the better.


Centre For Alternative Technology
Hundreds of ideas about how you can save energy in the garden. www.cat.org.uk/

Fairfield Composting are a local, not for profit, composting organisation and a useful source of advice. www.gmcomposting.co.uk/fcomposting.htm


10) Go to a party
Smile, party, laugh and whatever you do have a great life. If people think climate change activists are happy people you will do the cause a lot of good. Get the Manchester Evening News for the princely sum of 10p on a Friday with all the club, theatre, arts, concert, dance and cinema listings in and go play.