Sorry to hear that Melly, it was a real nightmare of a heatwave wasn't it?
Apart from having a couple of (quite ineffective) fans blowing the hot air around and moving as little as possible, there was not much else we could do, though I couldn't stop completely as I still need to help care for my wife, it's a case of just keeping on, keeping on! I'd love to hear some suggestions of what I could do differently when it gets that hot again, as It seems it will happen more often in the future.
More generally, we do what we can to limit our carbon emissions, nothing special, just lots of little things as much as we can, but I feel that I inevitably clock up more carbon emissions than others who are not carers as we don't always have the ability to choose alternatives.
Sometimes we really do need to travel short distances by car, sometimes we do need to have the heating on more than others, and sometimes we do use a lot of medical, hygiene, and health supplies that create a lot of waste or are not recycled or recyclable.
Would really like to have an electric WAV car (or share one!), would love to use more renewable energy (we looked into solar power but it didn't add up), and would love to use more recycled health and personal products, but we don't have the time or resources to do so. There is probably lots more we could do, and would love to hear from others, as I feel its extra hard for carers to do the right thing, and yet with climate change, we'll have to do more!