Our Top Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with our LeSTO Tool

As part of our overall aim of helping the UK reduce its carbon footprint and thus meet carbon reduction targets of 34% by 2020, Energy Saving Warehouse have created a unique tool making it easier for both individuals and businesses to Learn/understand and purchase the right products as well as be able to track the benefits of such purchases and offset any carbon emmissions from purchases or deliveries, all with the overall aim of achieving a better personal or business operational carbon footprint.

The basis of our LeSTO™ tool is 4 easy steps of Learn, Shop, Track and Offset.

 

We believe that if an individual or business follows our simple 4 step LeSTO™ plan, then the maximum impact can be achieved, and that person or business will be on track to embed the principles of Environmental Resource and energy Efficiency into their lifes or operation.

We do not, however, make it compulsory for our customers or website users to exclusively use our 4 LeSTO™ steps. We appreciate that some buyers may simply want to go straight to our ecommerce store and begin shopping, whilst other users may only want to make use of our extensive articles section as a free information source, and some may purely want Energy Saving Warehouse as their chosen Carbon Offset provider. We leave it up to our website users to decide how they want to use Energy Saving Warehouse. Our LeSTO™ tool is only provided as our best practice tool and as a way of effectively and efficiently achieving the maximum carbon reduction impact.

The 4 steps of our LeSTO™ tool are as follows:

Learn

As a follower of the ESW community you will have access to the most up to date environmental research and be provided with articles and tips to ensure your home or business is equipped to be as resource and energy efficient as possible.

Shop

Are you looking for a more sustainable alternative to the products you use? Could you be more efficient with the products you consume? ESW has handpicked a selection of the best products from several of the most energy and resource efficient ranges on the market for you to browse and purchase at your leisure.

Track

An easy to use tool which enables you to monitor your Carbon Footprint by keeping track of your purchase history. You collect Carbon Action Points™ every time you shop which is easily recorded and visible in your account settings. It's perfect for monitoring your personal impact, or for official accountability and auditing purposes. We can provide you with documented evidence if required.

Offset

Your paper may be 100% recycled and 100% recyclable, but have you ever thought about the carbon committed to delivering your product? Here at ESW, we provide a special service to offset those unavoidable Carbon costs. As a user of ESW, Carbon Action Points™ will help you to minimise the Carbon footprints created by your home or business. For every 100 Carbon Action Points™ collected, a tree will be planted in your own name or your organisations name. This provision comes in the form of local, UK based farmers with land devoted to planting trees in line with the DECC Quality Assurance Scheme. We can provide you with documented evidence if required.