Wearing a sweater to fight climate change
Posted February 9, 2012 7:57 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It would make Bill Cosby proud. Today is National Sweater Day, but instead of showing off your sense of style and panache, Darcy Dobell with the World Wildlife Fund says it’s all about putting on an extra layer of clothes rather than turning up the heat.
“If each of us turned our thermostat down by two degrees over the course of the winter then that would be the equivalent of taking off about 350,000 off the road. So, individual action really does make a difference.”
Dobell says keeping the thermostat down can also save you a few hundred bucks a year. “I certainly remember my grandmother saying to me if I ever complained the house was cold then she would say, “The house isn’t cold, you’re cold. Go put on a sweater!”
She adds the idea is to have Canadians really give some thought to how we use energy and how to value it rather than waste it.
