Want to live a greener life, but don’t know where to start? It’s simple — practice the three Rs! Reduce, reuse and recycle.
Reuse
Before you toss something in the recycling bin or garbage can, ask yourself:
Can I still make use of this in some way?
Convinced you can’t?
Read on: Here are 15 tips for reusing your possessions, [...]

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 [...]

Five Ways to Use Eggshells in your garden: Feed and protect your plants with eggshells.
A normal person looks at an egg and thinks “omelet” or “frittata.” A gardener (especially one who tends to be on the obsessive end of the spectrum) looks at an egg and thinks “yes! Eggshells!
1. Add crushed eggshells to the bottom [...]

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 [...]

Wow. This video shows the value of fixing things.
And even if you’re going to throw your old iPhone away, the value of having a free repair manual available for anyone in the world. If more people can fix things, then more people can have things, and less things end up in dumps.
iFixit.com is looking to do exactly that. Become a [...]

Going Green Expo, Melbourne, Australia
“Going Green’ has become a mainstream journey for all of us and on the path easy steps can be taken to lighten our footprint and shape the sustainable future.
With consumer demands for more and more of the latest solutions it’s getting easier and easier to realistically achieve. And you can lighten [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]