Ice Heating are one of the first Scottish companies to be certified by the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS). It's is an independent scheme that certifies microgeneration products and installers in accordance with consistent standards. It's purpose is to evaluate microgeneration products and installers against a robust criteria providing you with a shortlist of companies which are outstanding in this field of expertise and endorsed by Government.

The MCS is the only scheme to cover all microgeneration products and services, and has support from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and  industry as it's a key contributor to cutting the UK's dependency on fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions. For more information visit the Microgeneration Certification Scheme website.

For many years the UK has benefited from cheap and plentiful gas and oil supplies, but things are changing. Britain is now a net importer of gas and the costs of both gas and oil keep on rising. By investing in renewable energy, you can protect yourself against spiralling costs. Choosing renewable energy heating is good for the environment too.

Our heat pumps and the Ice Solar Kit don't produce any CO2 directly and you can cut your CO2 emissions completely by switching to a green electricity supplier. In the coming years energy efficiency will be the name of the game and schemes like National Home Energy Rating (NHER) will help us choose more energy efficient homes. By installing an Ice heating system you can increase your building's NHER score dramatically, making it efficient and cheaper to run.

Go Greener in 2009 - visit It's our future - Ten steps to a greener Scotland and make your pledge.

Other things can we do to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions?

• Turn things off - don't leave the telly (or anything else) on standby - they get through loads of electricity.
• Buy food locally. Did you know that our food clocks up thousands of miles in fuel guzzling, CO2 emitting transport before it makes it to our plates? It costs around £9 billion a year to transport food to UK shops and creates an amazing 19 million tonnes of CO2.
• Don't use peat in your garden - peat bogs are great at soaking up CO2.
• If it's cold - pull on a jumper before switching on the heating.
• Walk or cycle to work. Every time you jump in the car think:
• Could I get there some other way?
• Make sure your home is well insulated. A poorly insulated home loses much of it heat, making it expensive to run and more harmful to the environment.
• Switch to greener sources of energy supply, if possible. Renewable sources of energy save fossil fuels and cut out CO2 emissions.