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Cleaning our clothes, while necessary, is a potential mine-field for the environmentally-aware individual. From the water and power that we use to the chemicals we flush into the water system there are a huge number of improvements that can be made to the “standard” way of washing your clothes to make [...]
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When you consider the average person’s carbon footprint one of the most obvious ways to become significantly more eco friendly is to consider how you travel around. Driving a car around on your own is second-only to jetting off on vacation for carbon emissions but one common complaint against using public [...]
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Growing your own food can not only help you to significantly reduce your carbon footprint and save quite a bit of money each year but can also be great fun. Equally, especially if you’re starting out with an allotment or decent-sized vegetable garden, you’ll probably be needing a surprising number [...]
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Every time a web page loads it uses energy so the faster that your website loads the less energy it will use and the more eco friendly it will be. This is important for all websites but particularly so for those of us who care about the environment and try [...]
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Hedgehogs are becoming increasingly rare due to a wide variety of environmental problems not least lack of suitable habitat and deaths caused by domestic pets like cats and dogs as well as collisions with cars.
If that weren’t sad enough in itself these beautiful, harmess creatures also offer significant benefits to the environmentally-conscious [...]
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If you’re a bookworm like me then you’ve no doubt got all sorts of books lying around that you’ve read but don’t really know what to do with. Fortunately there are a whole host of different ways to recycle books that are fun, quick and simple to do.
Add to that [...]
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For anyone who cares about the environment yet runs their own website there is always an uneasy trade-off. Certainly allowing your visitors to access information via the interner rather than in printed form helps to reduce carbon emissions by reducing paper use. And using eco web hosting will ensure that the server [...]
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Growing tomatoes indoors can be surprisingly easy with just a small amount of knowledge and it’s entirely possible to produce a healthy crop of tomatoes in a very limited space. Indeed whilst at university many years ago I managed to grow tomatoes indoors by keeping them as houseplants on my windowsill so [...]
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It’s a popular myth that reading something online is far more environmentally-friendly than reading something printed on paper. After all, by reading online you’re saving trees being cut down, you’re saving the production and use of unpleasant inks and you’re eliminating the waste that comes from having to dispose of that printed [...]
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The internet is helping to revolutionize our lives. We’re reading more online, sending more emails and saving fuel by not having to go and speak to people in person to get things done. We’re all slowly going green either deliberately or by accident thanks to the world wide web.
But there is an [...]
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