Green Grandparents
Charlotte:
December 19th, 2006
I was reading the other day about how much energy we could all save if we switched off electrical appliances when not in use rather than leaving them on standby. This reminded me of when my grandparents came to look after my brother and me about ten years ago when my parents were away for the weekend. They went around at night switching off everything in sight – I think the fridge freezer was the only thing that escaped! Needless to say my brother and I thought it was very funny. Little did we know that they were being green without knowing it! In actual fact my grandparents and others of their generation have lots of green habits: they have been composting for years, long before it became trendy, my grandma always opens presents up very carefully so that she can reuse the wrapping paper and hardly ever uses her tumble drier as she likes her washing to smell fresh from hanging it out. All they need to do now is to ditch their BMW in favour of something more environmentally friendly!