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 [...]

Bio fuel is ethanol used as a substitute for petrol. It’s usually made from sugar beet, sugar cane, or maize and is widely used in places such as Brazil. In the UK, biofuel is usually mixed with petrol rather than used as a complete substitute for petrol. There’s more information in the next section, ‘Mixing [...]

People once spent most of their work and social time within their own local community but the invention of the car gave greater mobility. Now some people commute over two hours each way to work and drive long distances to visit families and friends.

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 [...]

Counting the Cost of Car and Air Travel
If there’s no choice but to use your car for most journeys ask your children to think of ways to cut down using the car. If children get used to going to school by car and never walk or take the bus, it’s hard to break the habit. [...]