Guest Post: The Top 5 Presents to keep your Child Active

With computer games being the activity of choice for many children these days, it stands to reason that kids are getting less exercise than ever before. It’s become harder and harder for parents to tempt them away from that couch and motivate them to venture into the great outdoors.   One of the key tricks [...]

Guest Post: Why Performing Arts will benefit your Children

It is common to perceive the performing arts as a waste of time and many people consider that there are other things for our kids to focus on. However, getting kids involved in the performing arts can be beneficial to children in terms of giving them self-confidence and becoming lifetime fans of culture and the [...]

Guest Post: 8 Green Camping Tips

With summer just around the corner we’re starting to plan our camping trips for the season. If you’re anything like us you’ll want to make your camping trip as green as possible. I like to think that when we venture out as a family we do as much as we can to make sure we [...]

Guest Post: Fun and Green Family Activities for the Weekend

Spring is on the horizon and that means more opportunities to incorporate eco-friendly ideas into your family weekend activities. Sure, your kids might prefer gaming and Facebook to bike rides in the park, but with a little bit of creativity and persuasion, you might be able to convince them to hang out at least a [...]

Going Green Today – Your Online Personal Green Coach

Going Green Today is an online website with a mission. Their ultimate undertaking is to help one-third of US citizens to reduce their footprint by a third, reducing US levels of emissions to those targeted by the Kyoto Protocols, but without the help of governments.

Guest Post: 5 reasons to visit Ireland this St Patrick’s Day 2012

March 17 marks one of Ireland’s biggest and most famous festivals – St Patrick’s Day. So why not join in with the festivities this year with a trip to Ireland? And what better place to explore breathtaking landscape, unspoiled countryside, stretches of spectacular coastline, and buzzing city life, than in the home of St Patty [...]

One Planet MBA and Embercombe

At TGF we really like the ethos and what Embercombe are trying to do.  So when browsing through their site we were pleased to learn more about the One Planet MBA and the fact that Embercombe are helping with this. The collaboration with WWF is now being extended and deepened through our contribution to their [...]

Guest Post: Hit the Slopes While Still Protecting the Environment

For the skiing, snowboarding and other wintertime enthusiasts or those who just want to take in the scenery and refreshing air that a ski area provides, there are ways to make a winter trip to the slopes enjoyable and beneficial for the environment. You may not think that a day or weekend on the slopes [...]

Guest Post: When to Replenish Your Stock of De-Icing Salt

Unlike the previous couple of years winter has, so far, been reasonably kind to us. Indeed experts have even been telling us that 2011 was the second mildest Christmas since records began. This run of unseasonably warm weather has meant that the council gritters, and their mountains of de-icing salt, have barely seen any action [...]

Guest Post: Family Cycling in the UK

Here in the UK we aren’t lucky enough to have the cycling culture that some of our European neighbours enjoy. The bike lanes of Amsterdam are famous and Paris has about 10,000 state-owned bikes circulating around, free for anyone to use for the first half hour. Some British cities are making real efforts to introduce [...]

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