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Growing Your Own Herb Garden

Herb gardens are fun to grow and come in all different shapes and sizes. You can grow herbs in the flower bed, in the vegetable garden plot or even in a pot. Although you can create a small dedicated space to grow your herbs in any type garden, it is much more worth it to [...]

How to live green easily

I am a lazy person, so for me doing extra things to be green was hard. However I have come up with my top ten tips on how to make little changes to your life, which you won’t even notice, but will be of benefit to both the environment and yourself.
1. If you can adjust [...]

Our wasteful Society

When will it stop?! Our society wastes an unbelievable amount of things and I do not see this ever ending! Every month there is a new technology, new televisions new I-something or other and all the while our dumps get filled with electrical goods that are still fully functional, however are totally useless in our [...]

Help us Learn

This is one of the most important issues of our time and unfortunately my generation appear to care less than the previous one. I am a 22 year old from London and thankfully grew up with a mother and father who taught me about the beauty of the world.
I grew up eating vegetables fresh [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]