Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

Dried or canned legumes and pulses (peas, beans and lentils). Red lentils cook down to a soft porridge consistency, which is great in stews, soups, curries and Bolognese; Puy lentils, however, keep their shape when cooked. Chickpeas and beans such as borlotti, butter, kidney and flageolet, as well as canned mixed pulses, are all useful. [...]

Cutting down the food mites
At the heart of all the arguments for eating locally grown, seasonal produce is the need to cut down on what have become known as food miles. Food Miles is the distance – often thousands of miles – that food travels from where it’s produced to get to your plate. The [...]

`Where does my food come from?’ is really two questions. One is to do with how the food was produced and the other is about where on the earth it travelled from, how it travelled, how long it took to get to you, and how long it was in storage before it got into the [...]

The choice of food retailers is almost as great as the choice of food products. This post here help you make the freshest picks.
Food on the Store
Because most people have little time to shop, supermarkets are the convenient option. You can get everything under one roof and do a big shop every so often so [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’re like anyone else you’ve probably bought many things over the years that you didn’t really need and didn’t get much use out of. Everything you buy has a tally of carbon emissions — emissions in the manufacturing process, emissions from the packaging, and emissions from transporting it to and from the store. The [...]

Going for Green Energy
Green energy is energy that comes from renewable sources — wind or solar power, for example. Most energy suppliers can sell you green energy and if yours can’t, try switching to another that can. You can also make the most of the energy you have coming into your home by cutting down [...]

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Often interest in green living starts with children. They’re taught about being green in schools and pass information on to their parents. They may already know more than you! The more you discuss with each other the need for living a greener lifestyle and the more responsibility children have for leading the way at home, [...]