Eco-Friendly Green Lifestyle

The active air system that heats this house has an unusual storage arrangement: the masonry north wall serves as a well- insulated rock heat storage bin. Filled with 60 tons of fist-size rocks, the bin receives heated air from the collectors through ducts leading into its bottom. Hot air then travels up through the rocks, [...]

To make your workplace greener, you use the same green principles and methods as you do at home. There are dozens of tips that you can apply to the workplace:
Set up a complete recycling system — for bottles, cans, photocopier cartridges, and plastic. Reuse anything that can be reused, such as CDs, and recycle the [...]

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 [...]

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 most obvious trip to consider converting from car to other forms of transport is your journey to work. Many initiatives set up to encourage a more balanced approach to car use rely on a major player in society - the workplace.
Talk to your employer about changing your start and finish times so that you [...]

Employers are becoming more interested in encouraging their employees to leave their cars at home.
Many companies have become burdened by employees expecting a car with their salary package. But if businesses can encourage alternatives instead, they can benefit themselves and the environment. Cutting down on the number of company cars means employers need less parking [...]

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 [...]

When in Rome .. .
Whether you are on holiday in a big bustling city like Rome or in a tiny village in Patagonia make sure that your money is supporting local businesses andcommunities. Before you book find out whether the hotel, lodge, or hostel works with the local community and provides employment opportunities to locals. [...]