Defeat the Outside Heat

As any middle-aged man in slacks who finds himself in a nightclub surrounded by trendy teenagers will tell you, it's not easy being cool. And when the temperature rises, the default option for many seems to be to crank up the A/C or whack on the electric fan - but there are plenty of more environmentally-friendly ways to cool off.

• Follow these simple tips to keep your home as cool as a cucumber - and follow these to keep yourself as cool as a cucumber.
• When it's roasting outside, this site will help you get your beauty sleep.
• Turns out we'd all be a lot cooler if we planted green roofs and some wall climbers on our homes. Who'd have thunk it?
• Believe it or not, one of the best ways to keep cool is to insulate your home - and as an added bonus, it'll keep you warm in the winter too.

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Here's a thing - Around a sixth of all the energy used in the US goes on air conditioning - that's even more than the amount spent on doughnut-making machines.