Turn off unnecessary lights

All those offices lit up at night.

Are they really all full of people working late?

Or is it some cock-eyed theory of aesthetics which says that lighting an empty space is beautiful?

One piddly office lit up all night wastes enough energy to make 1,000 cups of tea (you still need to find some poor soul to make them though).

Lots of light means lots of carbon monoxide too - 7% of all emissions in the UK alone and whilst we're on the subject of pollution lots of light in our cities means we don't get to see that starry, starry night that Don McLean sang about so evocatively.

So, if your building is lit up at night, every night, ask why. Find out how you could introduce a culture of everyone taking responsibility to turn off lights. Maybe your company could make a stand and put pressure on other offices in the area.

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