Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

Sharing the school run
If you have to use a car to get your children to school, you can cut down on the number of cars all going in the same direction each morning and afternoon by sharing the school run. Organise a group of parents to pick up the number of children that can safely [...]

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 [...]

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.

Get your recycling organized and make life easy for yourself. You’re more likely to recycle if it’s convenient and that means in and out of your home. It helps if you have separate boxes or bags organized in your home so that you can simply drop your various items to be recycled into the right [...]

Decide here and now to become more energy-efficient. Look around your home at all the appliances you own. Many of them are plugged in and switched on even though you aren’t using them. Go round switching them off. Many are on standby but unless appliances are switched off at the electrical socket they are likely [...]

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 [...]