Credit Crunching Ideas to help you save money around the home

It's a rough and uncertain time to be a homeowner. Plunging value, tightening credit and a slowing economy mean fewer people have the cash to invest in major home-renovation or cash saving projects. But there is some green light at the end of this dark tunnel thanks to some great energy saving ideas from http://www.ecotopia.co.uk/which will enable you to save your cash and reduce your carbon footprint.

Perhaps you have received a higher than expected energy bill and want to reduce your future energy costs? Try a smart meter at £44.99 to see how much energy you are using and where you can save. The efergy smart meter will positively encourage a reduction in energy usage, because it gives retime, instant and accurate reading of how much energy the use is consuming. Every time an electrical device is turned on and off the direct results can be seen. Comparing day to day usage gives the use direct feedback of daily changes of habit towards energy use can have an effect on costs, CO2 emissions and power use.

Check out the Radiator Booster at £14.99. Radiator Booster is an innovative and brand new eco-friendly product that can heat your room faster, save energy at the same time and reduce your heating bills. Simply place a Radiator Booster on the top/rear of a standard domestic water filled radiator, plug it in, and away it goes. This ingenious and unique UK Registered design uses miniature 12-volt electric fans to suck the heated air from behind the radiator, firing it into your room far quicker than any natural convection in addition to reducing the heat losses through the wall behind your radiator. Heating rooms quicker allows your heating system to shut down far sooner, saving you huge amounts of energy. Help save the planet and cut your energy bills, all for a running cost of about 30p a year!

On a water meter; want to save cash and preserve the most precious resource in the world – then get yourself a hippo at just £1.20 each. Did you know that 30% of your precious water supply is flushed down the toilet? Most toilets don't need a full cistern to flush effectively. With this Hippo in your cistern you will help conserve your water supply. Each Hippo will save between 2.5 - 3.5 litres of water each flush when fitted in an average cistern of 9 litres capacity.
Look out for the fab new Eco Shower Drop at £9.99. The Eco Showerdrop is the world’s first low-cost, universal shower meter. A simple digital display lets you know exactly how much water your shower dispenses through user-friendly graphics and tells you when the recommended amount of water has been dispensed. The savings can be substantial in both water and energy. For a family of four that could be over £180 a year saved on water and energy bills, as well as over 40,000 litres of water and two thirds of a tonne of carbon! There’s no installation, just a very simple set-up, and no tools are required. We love it!

One third of our waste from our homes is kitchen or garden waste that can be composted and used for our gardens. It also reduces energy and pollution from artificial fertilizers. Try our kitchen composting croc at £12.95. Place this decorative ceramic composting crock by the kitchen sink, after it's full, dump the contents in your garden or compost pile to feed nutrients to hungry plants. Keeps kitchen scraps where they won't leak or create a mess. Its activated carbon filter allows air to circulate to prevent rotting. Easy to clean, dishwasher safe. Holds 1 gallon and measures 17.7cms wide x 26.6cms high (7" x 10 1/2").

Save gas and cook faster. Most gas hobs burn gas inefficiently resulting in wasted energy, un-burnt bi-products and lost heating costing you money! The Gas Energy Saver at £5.99 solves this problem; its special catalytic alloy disc fits neatly over your hob heating to over 1000°C instantly, converting all the un-burnt gas to heat and energy. This saves heating time cooking your food faster with less gas. The special stainless alloy is dish washer proof.
These are just a few of a large selection of energy and money saving products we stock.

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Ecotopia.co.uk is your ethical online supermarket for everyday products, ethical gifts, eco-friendly gadgets, fair trade and natural groceries. Established in 2002 with assistance from the Prince's Trust, Ecotopia assists people in leading a more natural and lower impact lifestyle. Forthe largest choice of eco friendly products, ecotopia.co.uk has to be the one stop website for all your eco friendly products. With so many different ecologically sound products to complete your every need around the home, garden or even self-pampering, we can help you decide on how well you want to conserve your planet and lower your level of pollution. For those of you, who have an interest in gadgetry; why not browse the lists of eco gadgets, from our solar powered Glow Bricks and shavers to our hydrogen fuel cell racing cars and education sets. We include a wide variety of water powered andwind up gadgets to compliment our exciting range of eco gadgets.
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