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Step into the Kitchen

It is amazing how many environmental issues are manifest in our simple daily kitchen rituals. Energy consumption and food miles, land fill and pesticides, cleaning up the environment you cook in will help clean up the earth. Start with your energy use: throw out your electric kettle, toaster and coffee maker. According to Greenpeace roughly 2/3rds electricity is lost before it even reaches your home, using gas directly saves energy, and co2 emmissions. Look at your food selection: imagine your More

Green Energy to the Rescue

Energy is crucial for all our needs and future planning. We cannot go far without a sustainable source of energy. With existing stores of fossil fuel and red diesel depleting with each passing day and the rising cost of the same, maintaining a viable establishment is becoming more and more problematic.

Resorting to green energy can solve a lot of problems. Yes, it is true that one cannot directly shift to this form of energy immediately, since all the present More

Easier Than You Think: Top Ten Tips

Going green can seem like the new religion, maybe it is, like religions it has ’rules'and like all religions, these rules can vary from extremely strict to positive guidelines to living an ethical lifestyle. As somebody who has been involved in the environmental movement, I think the best way forward is to make some clear shifts in the way we live our daily lives.

1. travel slow: change the way you schedule your day, your weekend and your holidays, so you More

The Morning Routine

Mornings are hard enough without having to think about your carbon footprint, but it is shocking how our small habits add up, and simple changes in the way you start your day can help save the planet. I started thinking about the effect that I was leaving on the planet when I started to read the enigin PLC blogs. Which are really accounts of their employees daily lives, and the day to day tips they use to combate personal carbon More

Some tips for the new gardener

Gardening can actually be considered as one of the best hobbies ever. The main reason behind this is the amount of satisfaction that it provides to the person engaging in this activity. People who like gardening enjoy the idyllic moments spent in looking after plants and flowers. However, if you are a beginner and unsure about how to get started then here are a few gardening tips.

You can start by planting tomatoes as it is the most common planted More

Tips To Grow Your Organic Garden

Organic gardens whether they be flowers, fruits or vegetables are not that hard to grow. In fact, the only difference between an organic garden and a regular one is the lack of chemical and pesticide use.

Many gardens are grown using the harmful pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. These types of chemicals can be harmful to your health. Organic gardening allows you to grow those fresh veggies without the use of these harmful chemicals. This is not only healthier for More

Planting Your Own Herb Garden

If you are a person who is not interested in spending time in handling a detailed vegetable or fruit garden, you may think about the option of establishing and keeping an herb garden. Though the idea for planting an herb garden might not seem to be very significant, you have the option of enjoying delicious and wholesome herbs for flavoring your food.

For planting an herb garden the first task is to pick out the herbaceous plants that you want More