Speedy showers (four minutes or less, rather than six)

Could save around 15 kilograms of carbon and £60 a year per person.

That’s the length of quite a few songs. You could sing one to keep time, if you like. Anyone who accuses you of spending too long in the bathroom will thank you for it… even if they don’t quite love your voice.

Slay energy vampires

Could save around 45 kilograms of carbon and £55 a year.

Appliances like your TV drain power even when they’re not in use. But driving a wooden stake into these vampires is a radical fix and we’d probably suggest just switching them off. Your choice though.

Don’t get ready to tumble

Could save around 160 kilograms of carbon and upwards of £100 a year for a vented dryer.

Avoid the tumble dryer, if you can, and dry your clothes on the rack or line instead. Apart from cutting carbon, it’s also much harder to shrink your favourite wool jumper… trust us on that.

Turn down the heat

Could save around 340 kilograms of carbon and £100 a year for each degree Celsius you turn the heating down by.

Don’t do this if you live with young children or vulnerable adults. Otherwise, pop on a jumper (the snazzier the better) and turn down the thermostat by a degree.

Make every drop count

Using less water means less water overall needs to be made safe for drinking, reducing emissions. It can also save you money.

South East Water, Thames Water and Southern Water supply local homes. Each gives out free water-saving devices and advice to customers.

Lighten up

Could save around 25 kilograms of carbon and £20 a year.

Swapping out old halogen bulbs for LED lightbulbs is a bright idea, if we do say so ourselves.

Never too late to insulate

Fully insulating a home that currently has little to no insulation could save around 725 kilograms of carbon and £310 a year.

Just like you, your home uses less energy to stay warm if it’s wrapped up well. The website below has a few ideas for how you could insulate your home.

Pump up the heat

It depends how else you’ve made your home more efficient, but an air source heat pump could save up to 2,300 kilograms of carbon and £275 a year.

More efficient than gas boilers, air source and ground source heat pumps can slash average emissions from heating and powering the average home by more than half.

Here comes the sun

Solar panels could save you around £600 per year as well as reducing your carbon footprint.

Your home uses the free, zero-emission electricity first to power lights and appliances. It can also heat your home, if it has a heat pump or electric heating.

As the energy is coming from your panels – and not the electricity grid – it lowers your bills.