Bin the bags: Use your own shopping bags when visiting the supermarket or use the doorstep delivery service.
At the moment, each person in the UK uses an average of 134 plastic bags each year.

Don't drive. If you don’t have to, then walk, run, rollerskate, cycle or take a coach, bus or train. If you do a regular journey, try to set up a car-share scheme.

Gadgets: Donate old computer and audio visual equipment to community groups or schools. Buy rechargeable items instead of disposable ones e.g. batteries and cameras. Look for long lasting (and energy efficient) appliances when buying new electrical items - ensure these are well-maintained to increase product life cycle.

Junk the junk: Stop junk mail and faxes through the Mailing Preference Service

Launder rather than landfill: Use a nappy laundry service, and save disposable ones for holidays and long journeys

Lower your laundry. Wash your clothes at the lowest possible temperature and use a natural re-usable system such as Aquaball.

Use better energy. Switch to a supplier that generates electricity through wind, water and solar power.

Wrap up your home. Insulate your loft space, cavity walls, hot water pipes or boiler. Draught-proof your doors, windows, letterbox or cat flap. Keep your home a little warmer and your planet a little cooler.

Be bulb conscious: When you leave the room, turn off the lights.
Low energy bulbs give out the same amount of light but run on a third of the power.
Daylight Simulation bulbs not only save energy but provide you with a healthy natural daylight spectrum.

Don't boil over. If you don’t need a full kettle’s worth, don’t boil a full kettle’s worth. Tea tastes better with freshly-boiled water anyway!

No more standby. Get up and turn it off!

Stuff the freezer. Not a lot of people know this – but freezers work best when they are tightly packed - that way, they don't have to work so hard to freeze air space. A great way to justify some extra tubs of ice cream.

Take a quick shower not a long soak. Showers use nearly half the water of baths and cost a lot less to heat. If your fitting a new bathroom include tap aerators, a water-saving shower head and a dual-flush toilet. Save water by turning off the tap while you are cleaning your teeth and shaving.

Try not to fly. Try to use the telephone, videoconference or Webex for those business meetings. And the UK is really beautiful (and getting warmer) so why not have at least one holiday at home?

Turn your heating down. Turning your heating down by just one degree can save both energy and money lowering your contribution to climate change.

Unplug the charger. Most gadget chargers eat electricity even when not in use. So once you've powered up your PSP, iPod or mobile, make sure you power down its greedy little charger.

Consider a new boiler doing so could reduce heating consumption and costs in the average house by more than half.

Buy clever: Rather than buying heavily packed goods, try to buy 'loose' food.
Also buy things in refillable containers e.g. washing powders and choose concentrated products which use less packaging, such as Ultra Citra Suds Concentrated Liquid Laundry Detergent.

Buy local and seasonal food. Do you really need strawberries in December?

Compost heaps: Most kitchen waste can be composted. Contact your local council for details of local composting schemes and details of any compost bin sales.

Healthy lunch: Take a packed lunch to work or school in a reusable plastic container.

Keep Lids on Pans when cooking and you’ll conserve valuable energy. Without the lids, you’ll use more gas or electricity than you need to