Guest Post: Slashing Your Family´s Largest Carbon Footprint Contributors

When we try to become more environmentally-friendly, many of us take such steps as buying organic foods, recycling waste materials, and encourage responsible consumption among our family members. All of these steps are certainly worthwhile and beneficial ones. But, for many of us, they do little to address the main sources that contribute to our [...]

Guest Post: Trustee investment planning for an ethical pension

For many people, pensions are a black box: you put money in and buy an annuity decades later on retirement, without knowing much about what happens in between. For the ethical investor, this is an unacceptable oversight. Trustee investment planning can give you far more control over pension provision.   The majority of people with [...]

Guest Post: Tips to save money on your printer ink cartridge and environment too!

One of the most expensive parts of printing expenses is printer ink cartridges. It doesn’t matter which printer you buy, the recurring costs of printer cartridges remain very high. Increasing raw material costs have added fuel to this fire which has made the printing process painstakingly expensive. The process is not only hazardous for your [...]

Guest Post: Can Commercial Furniture be Considered Green

When people look at furniture within the hospitality industry, what do they see? They may see style, elegance, and beauty in varying forms. These are all important prerequisites for these kinds of furniture because they are the triggers that will draw the client numbers that players in the hospitality industry require to make their businesses [...]

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: Could safe driving help save the environment

These days, everyone knows that driving habits can have an impact on the environment, and that changing the way you drive can reduce emissions.  This kind of greener driving can also offer the added benefit of creating safer roads – we’ll explain how. How can your driving habits be bad for the environment? The more [...]

Guest Post: 4 Factors to Consider When Making Your Home Eco-Friendly

There are a plethora of reasons you may want to make your home more eco-friendly. It’s easy to get people on board with an eco-project for their home once they start to grasp how much energy their homes are actually wasting. Here are three factors you need to consider when making your home eco-friendly.      [...]

Guest Post: Take Care In the Sun with Natural Beauty Products

Whether you’re planning your summer getaway or a winter sun break to get away from the bitter cold of home, it’s important to know that sun exposure can cause significant damage to your skin, so it’s always sensible to take precautions.  Everybody knows the importance of using sun protection with SPF while out in the [...]

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: The Many Benefits of Green Homes

You might think that renting an eco-friendly home means getting into a property that is festooned with unsightly solar panels or made entirely of concrete.  But the truth is that green home technology has come a long way, and you don’t have to go whole-hog in order to make your home more conducive to sustainable [...]

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