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Carbon emissions, unless you belong to a unique and extremely small minority of people—Society Of How Great Carbon Emissions Are, perhaps?—aren’t going to be the first topic of conversation to come up at a party. Why? Obvious. It doesn’t impress women much, it doesn’t impress men much, kids have better things to do with their time and the majority of adults would generally rather stick pins in their eyes than utter those two terrible, super un-fun words. Yes, we all pretend that we give a monkeys–some even pretend to give a whole field of monkeys–but where does the conversation go aside from “we’re producing too many carbon emissions and we must stop!” Answer: nowhere. At all. Most people drive through the stuff day in day out and carbon emissions are the last thing on their mind. So without blog posts like the following, where would we be? In a whole heap of even more awkward trouble is what. Even fewer people would care. Click this link and join Enigin in their campaign to make businesses aware of their energy consumption.

Web-sites like Enigin’s are making a whole new generation of internet users aware of how they can save energy. When we think ‘energy awareness’ we tend to think turning off lights and not using too much water in the kettle. While these small things are important, let’s not beat around the bush: unless more businesses start to play their part, we’ll need to stop drinking an awful lot of tea–