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Companies, like households, need to play their part. At Sky we\u2019ve made a number o\ue005 changes this year, including changing our energy supplier to buy all green electricity \ue005or our sites, increasing our use o\ue005 hybrid vehicles, introducing automatic lighting controls in our o\ue005\ue005ices and continuing to reduce the power consump- tion o\ue005 our set-top boxes. Overall we\u2019ve nearly halved our site emissions \u2013 and in May we took the company carbon neutral.

Listening and talking to our customers it is clear that our biggest opportunity is our reach into our customers\u2019 living rooms. \ue004here is also a real opportunity to help people calculate their energy consumption and to show them what they can do. We\u2019ve been o\ue005\ue005ering selected cus- tomers a \ue005ree gi\ue005t o\ue005 low-energy lightbulbs as one small step. You can join in atw w w.jointhebigger pic ture.com.

In this book, you\u2019ll \ue005ind practical solutions about what you can do to make a real di\ue005\ue005erence. We can all play our part and achieve victories in our homes to save energy (and money) and, when they\u2019re all added up, to help address climate change.

The serious risks of climate change are beyond dispute. But too often the focus is on the problem not the solutions. The more I\u2019ve learnt about the challenge of climate change, the clearer it has become that there are things you can do \u2013 things that are surprisingly straightforward and which improve your

lifestyle rather than detract from it. That\u2019s why I\u2019m delighted to be sponsoring this Rough Guide, which I hope you\u2019ll use to find out the \u201chow\u201d of saving energy and addressing your carbon footprint.

\ue004he starting point is that we need to see that small actions taken by each o\ue005 us \u2013 multiplied many times \u2013 can add up to a much bigger picture. I\ue005 everyone reading this booklet saved one tonne o\ue005 carbon dioxide (about 10% o\ue005 the average person\u2019s usage in a year) we\u2019d save the equivalent to the energy used by residents in a town the size o\ue005 Woking. And with the solutions in this book you\u2019ll see that isn\u2019t hard to achieve. Changing all o\ue005 the standard lightbulbs in the average home to low-energy bulbs, \ue005or example, would save nearly hal\ue005 a tonne o\ue005 carbon. And that\u2019s be\ue005ore you look at heating,