Presenters: •Júlia Balogh•Dóra Juhász•Zsolt Kovács

4th project meeting, Malta

Batthyány Lajos Grammar School and Secondary Medical School

Students from several countries had been measuring their energy consumption for more than a whole year.

They shared the collected data with each other at consecutive meetings.

In this presentation we summarize our findings and thoughts.

Sources of energy in Hungary

Analyze Information

Take action

Measure

Data Energy audit

Average day energy consumption

Comparing three stundents’ homes

Turn down the temperature of your water heater to the warm setting (48,8 C%).

Check if your water heater has an insulating blanket.

Start using energy-saving settings on refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, and clothes dryers.

Survey your incandescent lights for opportunities to replace them with compact fluorescents.

Turn down the thermostat, or up in summer.

Clean or replace furnace, air-conditioner, and heat-pump filters.

Improving a homes air tightness (that is, to cut air leakage) can reduce consumption by 15-40% … proper insulation is a must!

Programmable thermostat is a must Microwave oven’s use up to 75% less Laptop computers use 90% less Switch off the gadgets you don’t use!

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.

The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

House 3.26 tonna CO2

Flights 0.30 tonna CO2

Car 6.35 tonna CO2

Motorbike 0.00 tonna CO2

Bus and train 0.79 tonna CO2

Secondary 4.48 tonna CO2

Total = 15.18 tonna CO2

Turn off your lights, TV, DVD player, mobile phone, computer, when you don’t use them.

Turn down the central heating slightly Fill your dishwasher and washing

machine with a full load. Do your daily shopping, when you go

home after work Slow down your driving Use laptop

• Don’t buy fresh fruit and vegetables which are out of season, they may have been imported to your country from long distances

• Try to only buy products made close to your home

• Buy organic produce

• Don’t buy packaged products

• Recycle as much as possible

my footprint

Hungary's footprint

the aim to save our planet

What we can do…

Everyone can reduce their personal impact on the planet by using

less energy, consuming more wisely and living a greener lifestyle.

To find out what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint, check out

How to Save the Climate, an awesome guide produced by Greenpeace:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/how-to-save-the-climate-pers