There are plenty of ways a business can become “green” and reduce that foot print. Listed below are five of those ways and explanations of each method.

10 ways to make your home a much greener place to be. Practical tips and advice you can all follow easily.

It’s that time of year again when the Christmas tree lights come out of storage and houses all across America are aglow with festive decorative lighting. This year with advances in LED lighting I wondered how much energy could be saved using LED decorating. **Note: This post sparked some debate so I have edited it [...]

We have been using the Berkeley Institute of the Environment carbon footprint calculator to track our average ecological impact and our progress is shown below. When we started tracking our carbon footprint back in March 2009 we assessed that our household produced a shocking 68 tons of CO2 per year, this is equivalent to 158 [...]

As I was sat at yet another red light on my way home last night I noticed that the annoying red light was alot brighter than usual, and it seemed to be made of lots of tiny lights instead of the usual single bulb… I remembered seeing some stories about new traffic lights which use [...]

#1 Wind turbines silently turn as the sun sets on the first full day of Spring. http://www.flickr.com/photos/flidais/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Did you know that a whopping 46 percent of home energy use is actually energy loss! In other words, there is no productive energy use at all! Here are 10 simple ways of reversing this energy lose, by changing some old habit and starting some new ones! Check out this list, these are some very [...]

After several years of debating this issue with my wife, I finally searched the web for answers. Not that I need to prove my side, because once again, I think I am right, but to prove my point, I needed some supporting facts. So, here goes: Are ceiling fans worth buying and running and do [...]

We found this clever little eco-calculator (courtesy of WidgetBox.com). It allows you to quickly assess how many Trees, how much Wastewater, Solid Waste, CO2 and Energy you are saving by using recycled paper. You simply fill in the type of function like, office printing, the paper details, e.g. 50% recycled and off you go… Get [...]