{"id":4161,"date":"2011-11-23T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:26:17","slug":"turn-that-light-off-dont-you-know-theres-a-recession-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/turn-that-light-off-dont-you-know-theres-a-recession-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn that light off &#8211; don\u2019t you know there\u2019s a recession on!"},"content":{"rendered":"I have started taking financial advice from seven year olds! Yesterday I spent a lovely hour working with the eco-committee at my children\u2019s primary school.\r\n\r\nThis year\u2019s priority is to try to cut the school\u2019s energy bills. The first job is to encourage teachers to switch off lights in empty classrooms and corridors and only switch on those they actually need.\r\n\r\nAstonishingly this alone could save the school \u00a37,000 a year from it\u2019s annual \u00a318,000 electricity bill! I joined the tour of the school looking for possible light switching off opportunities with a healthy scepticism, especially as it was approaching three o\u2019clock and the gloom was rolling in across the playground.\r\n\r\nBut, guided and encouraged by our man from the council, we discovered the joys of mood lighting! By pulling up venetian blinds (yes, like shares they can go up as well as down) and lighting the area furthest away from the window rather than, as one teacher admitted doing, turning every light on at once without even thinking about it the moment you walk into a room, you can halve the number of lights you turn on and actually enjoy more natural light.\r\n\r\nDo try this at home!\u00a0<a title=\"Energy Saving Trust\" href=\"http:\/\/enegysavingtrust.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The\u00a0Energy Saving Trust<\/a> have some\u00a0great advice, and some scary statistics to motivate\u00a0us.\u00a0\u00a0Let me know how you get on &#8211; next stop &#8211; the bathroom radiator &#8211; lovely as that hot towel is do you really need it available twenty four hours a day, just on the off chance!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have started taking financial advice from seven year olds! 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