Guest Post: Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way

For those of you who like to be super-organised, here is our first post of 2010 thinking ahead for the upcoming holidays. Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way For most people, the holidays are an all-out, over-the-top, smorgasbord of spending, eating, and yes, throwing away.  Sadly, the season that fills us with hope, joy, and resolutions [...]

Guest Post: Raising Green Children

Parenting 101: Raising Green Children Raising “green” children doesn’t require you to live in a tree or make clothes out of recyclable goods.  While young children are too young to understand concepts such as global warming, they are not too young to become aware of their environment.  Smokey the Bear has always been an effective [...]

Guest Post: Recycle, Renovate and Revive!

Recycle, Renovate and Revive – your old furniture gets a facelift By Katherine Bond Ever caught yourself looking round your home and wishing you could change the decor?  The slightly murky looking colour of your once pristine carpet and the saggy but comfy sofa that may have seen better days are beginning to make you [...]

Guest Post: Solar Panel Installation in a Cloudy Climate

The UK isn’t exactly famed for its long, hot, blue sky summers, is it? In fact, it’s not known for its weather at all. And why? Because the weather is largely dull and cloudy. It rarely gets ridiculously cold, it rarely gets ridiculously hot. In fact, the British have decidedly unremarkable weather. This might go [...]