This year’s Recycle Week (21-27 June) is the perfect opportunity to clear out your cupboard, the shed or attic and give any old, broken or unwanted small electricals the chance to be useful again.
Check out the Recycle now website and Recycle now Agony Aunt.
According to research, our modern reliance on electrical goods and the emotional [...]

This is a great article form mygreenaustralia.com: PVCs – how to reduce these in your daily life.
Not so long ago, lead paint was the norm.  My work buddy was poisoned by lead when restoring an old Victorian house.  Her behaviour was becoming more and more odd and at last she had a medical examination which [...]

Use these weight loss tips to lighten up your home, too
Our homes expand their waistlines in the winter in a similar manner as their inhabitants. As with all inflated bulges, springtime seems like the perfect time to purge and slim down. Living a healthy green lifestyle can help you shed pounds, so why not take [...]

By thinking a little about the products you choose, you can promote recycling and make a big difference for the environment.
In order to support recycling efforts, look for products made from high percentages of post-consumer waste, which is the waste produced by the end consumer of a material stream. Post-consumer waste is the garbage that [...]

Between 1960 and 2008 the amount of waste each person creates has almost doubled from 2.7 to 4.5 pounds per day. The most effective way to stop this trend is by preventing waste in the first place.
Waste prevention, also know as “source reduction,” is the practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials (such as [...]

After the winter storms, it’s truly a wonder to see how Mother Nature comes to life during springtime. As the hours of sunlight get longer and temperatures get warmer, you see the first signs of spring in sprouting bulbs such as daffodils and early bloomers like forsythia bushes. Hints of color interrupt the gray outdoors [...]

How To Have A Green Easter
Easter Eggs are possible one of the most over-packaged products on the market.  A huge cardboard box, a plastic moulding to hold the egg in place, a shiny foil wrapping all to hold a hollow egg, weighing only maybe 110g.
If you receive an egg like this, you can minimise the [...]

Green Easter Ideas
Easter baskets, wrapped in cellophane with their plastic eggs and grass, have a somewhat disposable nature even while Easter represents so many ideas like resurrection, new life and renewal. Even if you’re not making that many changes to your lifestyle, there are steps you can take toward a more environmentally friendly and responsible [...]

Every little bit is a step to help save the earth.
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Change to Fluorescent Bulbs – If every house in the United States changed all of the light bulbs in [...]

Ideas on how you can help the environment in 2010
Around your home

Turn off any lights or appliances in your house you don’t need on. This includes the play station and wii consoles.
Have shorter showers (three to four minutes) or have baths.
Recycle as much as you can. Really think about something before throwing [...]