Get Romantic with Candles

Each time you do this action you will save 0.69kg of CO2

Calculation Method
Green Thing would like you to turn your lights off in one room and use an emission free candle made from beeswax or soya instead for 3 hours (length of a candle-lit dinner?)

• If you turned off your lightbulbs in one room for 3 hours you would save: 0.69 kg (0.0527kg ¹ x 3 x 4.4 ² )

Candle retailers

Pure English Beeswax Candles from Toast.
Pacifica Soya Candles from the Natural Collection.
The Candle Garden offers a range of soya, vegtable wax and beeswax candles.
Something for the Wickend has a wide range of vegetarian/organic candles.

Footnotes

Reference	Notes
1	Ten 100 watt bulbs switched on for 1 hour uses 1kWh of electricity and 1kWh of electricity produces 0.527kg of CO2. So one 100 watt bulb will produce 0.0527kg of CO2 per hour (AMME The World's Energy Meter http://wiki.co2.dgen.net/index.php/ActOnCO2_Methodology#Grid_Electricity).
2	The average number of light bulbs in a house is 23.5. (The Energy Saving Blog http://howtosaveenergy.blogspot.com/search/label/reduce) The average number of rooms in a house is 5.34 (National Statistics 2001 Census http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/commentaries/housing.asp) 23.5/5.34 = 4.4