Category: Eco Friendly

  • What goes in the recycling bin?

    What goes in the recycling bin?

    Home recycling is one of the best ways that you can do your bit for the environment. Your local council provides you with all the bins and the (maybe slightly infrequent) timetable of rubbish collections so they are really doing all the hard work for you. All you have to do is a quick sort…

  • Eco Friendly Products

    Eco Friendly Products

    We all now know that we need to change our ways in order to protect our planet and ensure that our children and grandchildren can enjoy a good quality of life. The best way to do this is use less, throw less away and try to minimise our energy use. When we do buy something…

  • Eco-Friendly Gardening

    Eco-Friendly Gardening

    There has been an emphasis over the past few years for us to move towards a more environmentally respectful manner in all aspects of our lives. One place which many people don’t think about is the one place in our homes which is physically green; the garden. Looking to make your garden eco-friendlier? Here are…

  • Small Changes to Make Your Property More Eco Friendly

    Small Changes to Make Your Property More Eco Friendly

    We are all aware of how the choices we make impact the world around us and our properties can have a huge impact on the environment. Whether it’s your own home, a buy to let property or your business premises, there are several small changes you can make to ensure your property is more environmentally…

  • What Are Geosynthetics?

    What Are Geosynthetics?

    Two issues which have been creating challenges for civil engineers are the rising costs of materials and diminishing sources of aggregate and other components used in the construction of infrastructure. One innovation that’s been showing great promise in alleviating both these issues is the field of geosynthetics, or manmade polymers that can be produced more…

  • The 6 Best Eco Friendly Carpet Cleaning Methods

    The 6 Best Eco Friendly Carpet Cleaning Methods

    Keeping Carpets Clean Without Dangerous Chemicals Using eco friendly carpet cleaning methods is the best way for you to keep your rugs and carpets as clean as possible. These methods are simple to learn and great for eliminating stains, smells, and other damage. Eco-friendly cleaning techniques are better than traditional methods because they do not…

  • How To Make Your Home Office Eco Friendly

    How To Make Your Home Office Eco Friendly

    Your home office is a place in which you spend a large amount of your time and because of this, you should invest in it. In addition to making it comfortable and stylish, you might also consider making your office eco-friendly. Set aside some time and a little bit of money to lessen your carbon…

  • How to Drive in an Eco-Friendly Way

    How to Drive in an Eco-Friendly Way

    We all know that cars are one of the major CO2 producers, but we also all rely on our cars for work, errands, and socialising too much to give them up. There are however easy steps you can take to minimise the environmental impact of each trip. Eco-friendly driving basically comes down to using as…

  • Do Electric Cars Make Environmental Sense?

    Do Electric Cars Make Environmental Sense?

    Electric and hybrid car cynics will argue that these green vehicles do not actually make environmental sense because they have higher manufacturing and energy costs. Whilst this is true when you take into account the full lifetime of the vehicle and its greener impact on the environment once manufactured and in use then they are…

  • Eco-Friendly Construction Materials

    Eco-Friendly Construction Materials

    Drawing up plans for any new building project can be an exciting time but for those of us who care about the environment it can also be very challenging. All projects large and small throw up all kinds of obstacles from getting the necessary permissions to raising the finance but even when all of these…

  • What does eco-friendly mean?

    What does eco-friendly mean?

    Eco-friendly Definition and Meaning The term “Eco-friendly” seems to be appearing everywhere these days along with other synonyms “Environmentally Friendly”, “Nature Friendly” and “Green” but there is some misunderstanding about what, if anything, such terms actually mean. So what does eco friendly mean? The most simple definition of eco-friendly is that it describes something that…

  • Are greenhouses good or bad for the environment?

    Are greenhouses good or bad for the environment?

    Are Greenhouses Green? With so much gloom and doom surrounding the subject of global warming and the greenhouse effect, it is only natural that many people are now questioning whether actual greenhouses are a good or bad thing. Do greenhouses enable a greener more eco-friendly lifestyle or are they just an environmental catastrophe on a…

  • Ecological Restoration

    Ecological Restoration

    Planet Earth is almost unimaginably old and throughout its existence has been in a state of constant change. One of the most significant events in the planet’s long history was the emergence of life and this in turn led to the formation of complex eco-systems with each species being dependant on many others. Evolution followed…

  • Eco-Friendly Homes

    Eco-Friendly Homes

    The term “eco-friendly” has been around for so long that its true meaning is in danger of being lost. It is often used by advertisers in an attempt to appeal to environmentally conscious purchasers and is applied to all kinds of unlikely products from cars to detergents. Eco-friendly homes on the other hand offer the…

  • Types of Wood Fuel

    Types of Wood Fuel

    Types of Wood Fuel Biomass is one of today’s buzzwords and the use of organically sourced fuel is seen as the truly green alternative to the use of fossil fuels. Although biomass fuels can originate from a wide variety of sources, the one with which people are most familiar is of course wood. Wood is…