Tag: tips
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Putting plastic bottles to work in your garden
Reusing 2-litre plastic bottles as closhes for your seedlings helps protect them from pests – and keeps them from drying out.
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Customer cues for sustainable shopping
From bringing your own bags to buying local – here are five tips on how to shop with the environment in mind.
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Using bicarb to keep things clean and green
You could be harming the environment with the chemicals you use to clean your home. We share simple green cleaning tips and tricks.
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Paper: What to recycle and what to toss
Almost all paper can be recycled 5 or 7 times. Here’s how you can help conserve energy and water – and save trees at the same time.
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How to save electricity in your home
Do you know how much energy your household uses? We show you how to conduct an energy audit – and share tips to make your home more energy efficient.
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Atishoo! Why tissues are an issue
If you’re wanting to live a more eco-friendly life or you’re trying to create a zero-waste bathroom, you’ll need to consider a few changes.
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Save more than money by turning off the hot tap
Save electricity and lower your carbon footprint by being mindful of the amount of hot water you use.
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Green your home improvement
The BUDD green home-improvement “rule”: B = Buy only what you need, U = Use everything you buy, D = Donate any leftover materials, D= Dispose of waste responsibly. This came in an email from Friends of the Earth UK and is so simple and sensible it just has to be shared.
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Japanese ecofriendly gift wrapping
Save paper and try wrapping your Christmas gifts using Japanese Furoshiki this year.
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Eat less meat and take a load off the planet
Want to do something to help combat global warming? Eat less meat. This is the sage advice of the head of the world’s top scientific body on climate change, the IPCC. “Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,” Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was recently quoted in The Observer as […]