Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

Your money has power. You can choose to buy only the green and ethical products such as those mentioned throughout my post, and as consumer demand for these products grows, more producers switch to green production methods, putting more green products on the shelves. A happy by-product is that cost comes down, bringing green products [...]

Staking your money on ethical stocks
If you hold company shares directly, ask those companies about their business ethics and find out if they produce a social or environmental report.
You can invest in ethical index funds on an ethical exchange, and by buying shares and investing in companies with strong corporate social responsibility, you can encourage [...]

If you want to give away some of your hard-earned income, thousands of charities are only too eager to accept it. Choose your charity carefully to match your environmental, ethical, and green priorities. You can give to local housing projects or to clean-water projects in remote parts of the world. Whatever your principles, there’s sure [...]

Green living is a hot topic in many schools all around the UK. At secondary schools green issues are an integral part of citizenship, science, and geography classes. But there’s no national policy on whether and how to teach about being green, so what your children learn is usually down to the individual teacher and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]