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SusMo - useful website links

In helping you at home or your business to cut down on your CO2 emissions, further websites of related interest are listed below:

  • Birmingham Mail - lighter footprints- Esther Boyd’s SusMo blog on the Birmingham Mail website
  • Birmingham Mail campaigns- check out the Go Green campaign, particularly the Go Green Supplements
  • Act on CO2 - a carbon emission calculator run by DirectGov
  • The Energy Savings Trust- independent information and advice for individuals
  • The Carbon Trust- independent information and advice for business/organisations

  • Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth
  • Freecycle - if you want to get rid of something that still has a useful life, there is a Birmingham group you can join.
  • Love Food, Hate Waste - tips and recipes
  • A Year of Living Generously is an online experiment, about looking after this planet and its people, and that if many of us can make small changes in our everyday choices, then over time, we can make a big difference for everyone.
  • Light Bulbs Direct - low energy light bulbs: including small candle-type, ping-pong, and spotlights not readily obtainable in shops – yet!
  • Go Green Lights- low price source of low energy light bulbs
  • Green Roof Consultancy - the benefits of building integrated vegetation
  • www.growyourownenergy.org.uk - calculator for financial benefits of energy savings investment
  • www.recycleworks.co.uk - domestic recycling and composting equipment
  • www.transport2000.org.uk - promotes socially responsible transport policies
  • www.sustrans.org.uk - charity promoting sustainable transport and organising U.K.-wide cycle routes
  • www.pushbikes.org.uk - the Birmingham Area Cycling Campaign

  • www.carplus.org.uk - charity promoting responsible car use
  • www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk - provides a list of vehicles with CO2 emissions of less than 120g/km, such as:
    • Seat Ibiza Ecomotion (1.4 litre turbo-diesel) - 99 g of CO2 per km (74.3 m.p.g.)
    • Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion (1.4 litre turbo-diesel) - 99 g/km (74.3 m.p.g.)
    • Toyota Prius (hybrid 1.5 litre petrol-electric engine vehicle) - 104 g/km (65.7 m.p.g.)
    • MINI Cooper D (1.6 litre diesel) - 104 g/km (72.4 m.p.g.)
    • Citreon C1 (1.4 litre diesel) - 109 g/km (68.9 m.p.g.)
    • Citreon C1 (1.0 litre perol) - 109 g/km (61.4 m.p.g.)
    • Honda Civic Hybrid (hybrid 1.4 litre petrol-electric engine vehicle) - 109 g/km (61.4 m.p.g.)
    • Peugeot 107 (1.0 litre petrol) - 109 g/km (61.4 m.p.g.)
    • Toyota Aygo (1.4 litre diesel) - 109 g/km (68.9 m.p.g.)
    • Toyota Aygo (1.0 litre petrol) - 109 g/km (61.4 m.p.g.)

    See also: www.dft.gov.uk/ActOnCO2/index.php?q=best_on_co2_rankings

  • www.whizzgo.co.uk - ‘pay-as-you-go’ cars

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