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Wednesday 8 September 2010

Scottish Island Told to Stop Using Toasters

The Scottish island of Eigg has most of its energy provided by hydro-electric generators but, according to this article in the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/stop-using-toasters-islanders-are-told-2014033.html, a recent shortage of rainfall has resulted in islanders being encourages to use their energy hungry appliances less.

Islanders have been able to halve their energy use by 47% by "learning to use less energy" - described in this article in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/01/eigg-island-renewable-energy. We think that they could save even more if they used Earthpill.

Article about Eigg Electrification Project: http://www.isleofeigg.net/trust/eigg_electric.htm