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Want to do something to help stop climate change?
Here are 10 simple things you can do and how much carbon dioxide you’ll save doing them.

Change a light
Replacing one regular light bulb with an eco-friendly compact fluorescent light bulb will save 70kg of carbon dioxide a year.

Drive less
Walk, bike, carpool or take mass transit more often.  You’ll save 0.5kg of carbon dioxide for every
km you don’t drive.

 Recycle more
You can save 1100kgs of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.

Check your tires
Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%
 Every 10 litres of petrol saved keeps 9kgs of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!

 Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water: Use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead (160kgs
of CO2 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (230kgs saved per year)

Avoid products with lots of packaging
You can save 550kg of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%

Adjust your thermostat
Adjusting your geyser thermostat down by few degrees can save up to 800kgs of carbon dioxide per year.

Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime

Turn off electronic devices
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you’re not using them will
save you thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide a year.