Date: 04 May Action: 124 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ SAVES MONEY Modern vehicles and investment in public transport by many governments means increasingly that taking a bus to work is better than driving … in lots of ways We all know that when it comes to convenience of (read more …)
Date: 05 March Action: 064 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ LOW A small change can make a difference This action is another one around driving. Unfortunately, we will be transitioning from internal combustion engine cars to electric cars for many years yet, so oil and fuel economy remains a (read more …)
Date: 03 March Action: 062 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ SAVES MONEY Action 062: Turn off your engine at a standstill We did mention this a few weeks ago in an early action about driving like a professional, but it’s worth a mention on its own as it so (read more …)
Date: 30 January Action: 030 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ NIL When thinking about how to broach the topic of electric cars on this site, we were faced with a dilemma. How could we encourage people to buy electric vehicles but describe the action as “an easy, simple one (read more …)
Date: 17 January Action: 017 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ NIL, SAVES MONEY Short journeys taken in cars are our most damaging individual trips in terms of carbon emissions. Your car is at it’s most polluting when cold and it uses more fuel. Also, very short trips are usually (read more …)
Date: 10 January Action: 010 Cost of taking action: £/$/€ NIL (but you may need to take advice) Recently (January 2021) a little bit of media attention has been turned to the fact that literally trillions of dollars/pounds/euros have been invested by major banks into supporting fossil fuel industries, (read more …)
