BBC Panorama: Go green or else

I've just finished watching the BBCs parnorma program Go green or else, and to be honest I wasn't all that impressed. Throughout the program it felt like the presenter and his wife were treating the whole problem of global warming as a bit of a joke. Fair enough they did do several things to improve their carbon footprint including getting rid of their car, but they just didn't seem to take the whole thing seriously.

The program was reasonable informative for people who might not have looked into going green before, it had several tips on the small everyday things you could do to save energy like fitting power saving light bulbs and insulating loft spaces etc.

They had a very interesting section where they used a thermal imaging camera to see how much heat their house was giving out. This got me thinking about the whole global warming thing in a different way, which I'll post an article about later.

I think the part that would have interested most people though was at the end when they realised how much money they had saved by going green. They estimated they had saved around £2000 in a year, which for some people would probably be a good enough reason in itself to start going green.

As a side note, while at Tesco tonight I noticed they are now selling their value power saving light bulbs for 89 pence. At this price you can't go wrong really. It's roughly the price of 4 normal bulbs, but the savings you could make are much larger. For more information read my article Power saving light bulbs: how much can you actually save.