Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

One way to reduce the number of new clothes you cause to be manufactured is to buy clothes from the past. Lots of good-quality clothes in market stalls and second-hand, vintage, and charity shops fit the bill for something different. The retailers are trying to get in on the act by producing designs that look [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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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. [...]