Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

Some of the best methods you can adopt to reduce your car use are:

Leaving your car at home for a day: Use your car to drive to work only four times a week rather than every day of the week – walk, cycle, or use public transport on the fifth day.

Sharing your journey: How [...]

If you don’t need a car as part of your job, think about changing to public transport.
People give several standard reasons for not using public transport, but others give just as many reasons why they love it. Those against trains and buses, in particular, refer to safety and security concerns, unreliability, and lack of services [...]

The most obvious trip to consider converting from car to other forms of transport is your journey to work. Many initiatives set up to encourage a more balanced approach to car use rely on a major player in society – the workplace.
Talk to your employer about changing your start and finish times so that you [...]

Employers are becoming more interested in encouraging their employees to leave their cars at home.
Many companies have become burdened by employees expecting a car with their salary package. But if businesses can encourage alternatives instead, they can benefit themselves and the environment. Cutting down on the number of company cars means employers need less parking [...]

The biggest impact the Internet has on transport is by offering the ability to shop online and curtailing trips to shopping areas. You probably make most shopping trips in your car, especially for groceries, hardware items, and things that can be carried in your car boot. Rather than go to the hassle of finding a [...]

Mopeds and small motorcycles have really caught on in the cities in recent years — often because they are so much easier to manoeuvre through heavy traffic and to park, but more recently in London because they are exempt from congestion charges. They’re well suited to people who don’t have to travel too far to [...]

Boarding a train instead
There may be a greener way to get where you want to go. Taking the train is slower if you’re travelling long distances but there’s not a lot of difference in terms of time taking a train from Glasgow to London and vice versa, after you add in the check-in time at [...]

As with anything involving increasing human demand, tourism has an impact. The impact on the environment and local communities from holidays is significant. The World Wildlife Fund says that the impacts of increasing tourism in once remote parts of the world include:

Huge developments in coastal areas ruining the local ecosystem, particularly plants and wildlife.