Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

Though the ducts and rock storage bins of active air systems are space-consuming, they set no unusual limits on the architectural style of new homes built to incorporate them, beyond the basic requirements of southward orientation and energy conservation. Traditional-looking houses can shoulder their solar collectors as gracefully as “futuristic” ones, and their interiors can [...]

If you want to build a green home, buy and renovate a derelict building to become a green home, or to adapt your own home to be more green, the chances are you’ll need a mortgage — a loan secured against the property concerned.
Few high street lenders are geared specifically to deal with green projects [...]

You buy green goods for your home and you can extend that principle to the workplace. There’s little point in being green enough to recycle paper but buying paper that isn’t produced from recycled materials.
Encourage your bosses to buy from green suppliers selling green products for office necessities such as paper.
Before going out and buying [...]

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 [...]

Planting trees
You can plant trees anywhere as long as the owner of the land doesn’t object. If the school has no land of its own on which to grow some oxygen-producers, find somewhere else you can plant a few trees that the children can watch grow.
People who fly are asked to plant a tree or [...]

Schools have a role to play in the wider community and can lead by example. The ultimate goal of greening schools is to get the children involved in projects that help build a greener community. If the school uses renewable energy and recycles and composts food waste, it shows children, parents, and other people in [...]

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 [...]

Some of the things to think about if you’re travelling green:

Making all the bookings - for travel and accommodation - yourself means that you can make the greenest choices.
Getting there and back greenly involves looking at alternative ways of travelling.
Choosing a green, responsible tour company to book through means going to one of their locations [...]

The greenest holidays are those spent at home — enjoying the countryside around you without travelling long distances and adding to environmental damage. But sometimes you need to go farther afield. So make your break as green as possible.
Sorting out types of green trove!
The travel industry is responding to increasing demand for green or responsible [...]

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.