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 [...]

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 [...]

Dramatically successful in achieving its goal of almost 100 percent active solar heating, this house was built more as a demonstration of an active heater’s capabilities than as an example of a practical solar application. Such a system is uneconomical not only because of its overall cost, but also because much of the collector and [...]

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 [...]

Telecommuting is a system in which employees or contractors connect to work via a computer from home or another remote location, thus reducing that person’s need to commute to work - hence the term telecommuting. Companies tend to offer telecommuting on a part-time basis, with employees working from home one or two days a week.
Telecommuting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]