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