Archive for the 'Being green' Category

Get out of your car and onto your bike with the latest wink bingo promotion

One of the best ways to do your bit for the environment is to get out of the car and onto your bike for short journeys around your neighbourhood. There are loads of little journeys you can make that don’t really necessitate using the car. Moreover, riding your bike around is really good for your [...]

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Eco-friendly family threw out just one carrier bag of rubbish last year

An article in the Daily Mail recently highlights a family of super-green recyclers, the Strauss family from Longhope in Gloucestershire, who threw away just one carrier bag full of waste all year.
Richard and Rachelle Strauss and their daughter Verona made a concerted effort throughout 2010 to reuse or recycle every bit of waste they [...]

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Lower your carbon footprint and save money

It’s actually getting easier nowadays to lower your carbon footprint because lots of industries are trying to do the same. Take the car industry, for instance. New cars that come onto the market tend to have much greater fuel economy than their predecessors and this is something we ought to take advantage of.
This is one [...]

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Recycling Bins – a saviour or a nuisance?

Every other Wednesday, I put my numerous recycling bins out, and over the last year or so, the number of boxes, bags and bins allocated to me by my Council has increased – I now have 6! A wheelie bin for “general waste”, a food bin, a paper bag, a glass and metal box, a [...]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Organic Clothes – will they take off?

In this day and age, there is now an organic option for everything, from toilet paper and cosmetics to cars and clothes. By sourcing and manufacturing items from an environmentally and socially sustainable source. So “going green” isn’t all about recycling, it is also about knowing how you items are made, and avoiding those that [...]

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Throw away your litter..in a BIN!

On my journey back home from work yesterday, I was disgusted by the amount of litter that had been thrown onto the road side. Numerous fast food bags and plastic bottles covered the grass verge, do people not realise what effect this could have on the environment?
Obviously, some people are oblivious to the problems that [...]

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change

The environment is an issue which divides the world yet effects it all. Today is blog action day, where thousands are writing articles online to promote the issue of climate change.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is [...]

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Bear-ly there

They are one of the most magnificent creatures on planet earth. But sadly, we are seeing far less of them now.
Because according to new research, polar bears have shrunk over the last century. The scientists compared bear skulls from the early 20th Century with those from the second half of the century and found that [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Climate meeting in Ethiopia

Climate change is forever on the agenda. And now the leaders of ten African countries are meeting in Ethiopia to discuss the topic.
The meetings will underline the chief African demand for compensation for damages caused by global warming and it comes before the UN talks which will take place in Copenhagen in December.
The [...]

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Do your bit

The effects of climate change are continuously emerging. The most recent news is that conkers have started to appear on trees already. This is two weeks earlier than usual.
So how can we help stop the effects of climate change? Well there are hundreds of small changes you can make and here are just a [...]

Friday, August 21st, 2009