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Our village has been working on reducing our carbon footprint and pledged to make an initial 10% cut back in June (10:10, 4 September). Our first task was to establish our CO2 output. This is not easy as energy companies were reluctant to divulge figures for the village as a whole rather than for individual consumers. The second lesson was that the CO2 produced by the small industrial estate is roughly half that of all the houses in the village combined. This would suggest that focusing on businesses could have a quicker and more dramatic impact than working with 700 individual households. The businesses too could see significant cost savings.
Duncan Roberts
Architect, Belford, Northumberland
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