Island Life Magazine Ltd October/ November 2012 | Page 138

EcoGUIDE Facts, tips and advice by Ben Lansley-Brown Did you know...? Heat pumps – how they work An area three times the size of the Isle of Wight would need to be planted with Sitka spruce to absorb the carbon resulting from the annual UK use of domestic electric lights and appliances. Children ‘get Eco friendly’, please! Some 72 per cent of responsible for up to 15 per children aged 16 and under cent of the total electricity Heat pumps now form an regularly leave their lights bill on lighting alone, while essential part of the solution for on, and almost tw