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 [...]

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 [...]

In most climates, neither a heat pump nor a solar heating system can, by itself, provide all the heat a house needs.
Put the two together, and the heat pump can plumb the solar storage tank for heat, even when the tank’s liquid is much too cool for direct solar heating and the air outside is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]