This week my tennis doubles partner, David Phillipson, has come down from Nottingham to train with me for a few days.
It's a fairly new partnership but we get on well and our style of play is complementary – he is quick and gets around the court so he gets a lot at the back, whereas I'm in at the net and can finish things off.
We won our last tournament together in Nottingham in November. He's staying at my house and we're travelling in the same car to training in Roehampton.
Using the EDF Energy EcoManager has not only got me thinking about energy usage inside the home but also about my green attitude in general. I started looking at EDF Energy's teamgreenbritain.org website, which is full of tips to reduce your energy consumption, and I found out that car travel accounts for more than half of CO2 emissions from transport.
Up until now, I've been travelling in the car by myself to training, so I decided to find someone living near me who trains at roughly the same times as me and we've started sharing our journeys. It means I only have to drive every other day. It halves my petrol costs and gives me company on the journey.
It's a no-brainer, really, and it's much more green because it means there is one less car on London's roads every day.
About the author
Marc is a full-time wheelchair tennis player and Paralympic hopeful. He lives in west London with his sister in a four-bedroomed house. His most guilty energy habits are washing his tennis kit every day and leaving his TV, PlayStation and DVD on standby. EDF Energy is working with athletes such as Marc to turn ParalympicsGB into a truly "green team" ahead of 2012.
