Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’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. [...]

Helping Grow Your Garden
The garden is a great place for children to discover the environment. Water recycling and composting systems are good examples of the three Rs in practice.
If you have space, grow some vegetables and perhaps plant a couple of fruit trees. Growing your own food — even only a tiny percentage of it [...]

Often interest in green living starts with children. They’re taught about being green in schools and pass information on to their parents. They may already know more than you! The more you discuss with each other the need for living a greener lifestyle and the more responsibility children have for leading the way at home, [...]