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Green Thing gets red hot for Valentine's
Send a free and sexy body-warming valentine.
Green Thing, a not-for-profit public service that inspires people to lead a greener life, has some free and steamy e-cards on offer for you to personalise and send to your sweet thing.
So when your beloved whips their shirt off and says "Honey I'm cold", don't say "Shall I put on the heating?" Human heat is the sexiest and most sustainable source of energy, so send somebody whose body you love a special body-warming Valentine.
Send your eco-loving Valentine HERE.
Why body heat?
One way we can stop our planet from overheating is by underheating our homes. Heating uses more energy and creates more CO2 than anything else we do indoors so if you're cold, leave the radiators off and wrap up in a jumper - or better still, with another person.
Most of the CO2 produced by our homes comes from the energy we use. And heating accounts for around 60% of that energy.
What's more, most homes in the UK and Ireland are overheated. A nice, comfy setting for your thermostat is between 18C and 21C - but half of the nation's thermostats are set higher than this. Instead, warm your cockles by putting on a snug jumper or snuggling up to someone swell and lower your heating a touch or leave it off for a bit longer.
If everyone in the UK and Ireland used more of their natural human heat - each body is equivalent to a 100 Watt heater - and turned their heating down by just one degree, we'd save 6.7 million tonnes of CO2 each year. That's like shutting down fourteen coal-fired power stations for a month, not to mention chopping £716 million off our energy bills! And being a bit cooler means you'll burn more calories to generate body warmth, giving you a nicer figure to show off come summertime.
Why, oh why?
Say someone comes up to you and asks why you’re using Human Heat rather than central heating. What are you going to do? Blub like a baby? No! You're going to smack back with a pithy comeback like one of these:
- Because overheating is cheating.
- Because a madman has wired up my central heating thermostat to a bomb.
- Because I'm saving energy to save money to pay for your personality transplant.
- Beautiful people offer their bodies to me, what can I do?
- I could tell you, but I'd have to cremate you.
More info on the Green Thing here.
