Here are the top ten green tips we believe will make a BIG difference:
Top Ten Green Tips (in no order)
Re-Use your shopping bags!
Come on, everybody knows this helps a great deal. Old plastic bags will end up on a landfill and take hundreds of years to decompose. Not to speak of what they can do to our wildlife!
Start re-using your shopping bags or invest (a pound, in most cases) in a sturdier hemp or hessian bag. These will last for ages and are stronger and more attractive!
Support Wildlife parks and local natural beauty.
This is something that you may do already or always want to do but never find the time.
You may not think it but visiting your local natural attractions and beauty spots supports the environment a great deal. If we do notappreciate these areas now, there will not be many left for our great grandchildren to see. The UK has a vast countryside and the local community as well as tourists help to keep them open and not built on by local councils!
Grow your Own Vegetables!
If you can...do it! It is a rewarding activity which helps expand your knowledge as well as give you fresh organic fruit and veg. You can set up a garden with hardly any space and low cost or grow vast amounts of food in a large open space for not much more money. There is nothing like the taste of your first strawberry grown from seed!
Economical driving...a sore point for some.
I'd must admit, I do like my driving. Yes yes typical bloke with a sports car. The fact is, our second car is a golf diesel which runs on 50/50 vegetable oil (and diesel). This is the car which takes me to work. It is legal in the UK if you declare it after 30 (or so) thousand miles. Read more here.
You can also buy hybrid and electric cars nowadays which cut down your fuel emissions greatly. I personally believe that more work needs to be done on hybrids and electric cars to make the 'whole carbon footprint' - from building the car to running it, more effective on cutting carbonemission's.
Or failing all that, pretend an eggshell is under your accelerator!
Recycle old clothes.
I know my partner had a huge pile of clothes that she would never had worn again. We took them down to the local charity shop so that someone else (and there always is) would make use of them. This not only cuts down on a range of new manufacturing i.e. platic bags for retail, new clothes purchased but will provide great deals for people and give to charity!
Support local butchers and businesses.
Nowadays, most of your meat and food comes from abroad. We as a country are sacrificing cost for carbon emissions! Get down your local butchers for better quality meats and aiding the Uk's self sufficiency.
Nowadays, most of your meat and food comes from abroad. We as a country are sacrificing cost for carbon emissions! Get down your local butchers for better quality meats and aiding the Uk's self sufficiency.
Use Rechargeable Batteries.
Batteries are expensive and by using rechargeable, you will not only save money but save on the carbon emissions transporting and producing more batteries. Like plastics, batteries will not decompose for centuries and will harm the environment a great deal more.
Recycle Packaging!
Another easy one. Take the extra time to wash out and sort your kitchen/home waste. Why let it sit in the ground for years when you can recycle it by doing that little bit extra!
Switching off and Switching.
Again one everybody knows! It is very important that we switch off our appliances from the plug switch when not in use. It is not only safer for us, it is as logical as tightening that dripping tap! Why waste energy?
Switching - Energy saving light bulbs are a godsend. Soon we will even turn to LED. I am waiting until the price of led decreases and in the meantime ditching those power consuming bayonet antique light bulbs!
Use Common Sense!
Instead of driving to the shop or leaving the heater on all night. Think of alternate ways to cut your costs and footprint. Make up a hot water bottle and take a walk (or run) to pick up the morning paper. Saving energy and living green is about doing things that will benefit you and the environment.
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3 comments:
Great list thanks! I would like to add a tip, recycle old paper and cardboard and make into fire blocks. A fun activity for children and help out on winter evenings. See here Green Age...http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=36210
Thats my 2 pence!
This is a great list thanks! Really useful blog...
Grow your veg is a very strong one, we started to grow in a recycled plastic raised bed in the front garden with the children- it is fun too.
the recycled plastic potato pod was far more fun than what I would imagine - as you can see the pod getting bigger every week - and the only thing to do is to open the tie a bit once a week.
we were all waiting for the exciting minute of opening the pod.
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