Play Your Part

Make Positive Lifestyle Changes

Our lives have been inundated with conveniences and luxuries that consume huge amounts of energy. If we wish to continue this kind of lifestyle, it is important that we are responsible and make sure we are using renewable energy sources where we can.

The following are just some of the things that you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.

1. Change to Green Power

Offered by many power companies, green power is produced from renewable sources such wind, hydro, tidal or thermal solar.

2. Install Solar Hot Water

Install an Apricus solar water heater. An Apricus 30 tube collector can reduce your carbon footprint by more than 2000kg annually. This is equivalent to planting more than 200 trees in terms of reductions in carbon levels.

3. Energy Efficient Appliances

Use energy efficient white goods (e.g. 5 star rating)

5. Use low flow shower heads

Use a low flow shower head which can reduce your hot water energy usage by 30-40%, and reduce household water usage.

6. Use low energy light bulbs

Change your antiquated incandescent light bulbs to high efficiency fluorescent low energy light bulbs. They not only last longer, but run cooler (good in the summer) and use only 15% of the energy of incandescent light bulbs. This will immediately save you money and greatly reduce your energy bills.

7. Turn off lights

Don’t leave all your lights on all the time. Turn OFF a light when you leave a room.

8. Insulate your house

Ensure your house is not “leaking” air, especially during the summer and winter when you are using energy to keep your home comfortable. Draft stop your windows and doors, use insulating window shades/curtains and install roof insulation.

11. Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

This is a popular message and applies to all products you come into contact with each day. Paper in particular is a major source of pollution and energy wastage. Click here to learn about how Apricus is working to reduce paper wastage.