Look ahead to the end of your semester and picture the stellar grades you’ve earned, along with a spot on the Dean’s list. Do you know what else you should be envisioning? A pile of textbooks you don’t need anymore. You know what you’re going to do with your education, but what should you do with [...]
We all live very busy lives with so much going on with work, our families and our home life. In saying that, it is difficult to ignore what is going on around us in terms of climate change. Experts have explained that weather patterns are in flux and as a result of many man-made issues, the [...]
Managing a modern household is no easy task. Often, the most difficult thing to do is to reset your family members’ priorities, especially if it means changing up their daily habits. Understandably, this applies to the idea of becoming more eco-friendly inside the home. Having a “greener” home constitutes several different choices, from teaching your kids [...]
Chances are even if you have curbside recycling pick up where you live you still aren’t recycling as much as you could. There are plenty of things that can be recycled that just won’t fit or shouldn’t go in your curbside bin. Those things often end up in the landfill out of convenience or just because [...]
Warmer weather is on its way, and perhaps you’re looking for new opportunities to recycle/reuse for an eco-friendly Summer. You will be going on trips, heading to the beach, taking care of your lawn and spending a lot of time outdoors. The following tips can give you some new ideas and help you to remain cognizant of [...]
Just because most garbage and waste don’t look very visually appealing is no reason to take a haphazard approach to getting rid of it all. If you’d like to go green and start more environmentally-friendly practices, learn how to dispose of your waste in a way that gives back to the Earth and helps support a [...]
The most common practice when disposing of old furniture and appliances from around the home is to send them straight to a landfill site or ‘tip’. Even if the items aren’t broken or faulty, we will often throw away what could easily be recycled or sold on to a new owner. These larger items are not [...]
You might be well aware of the three R’s; Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. But putting those words into practice is often easier said than done. Getting started is the tricky bit but once it becomes a routine you can quickly become a rubbish reduction champion. "If you adopt the three R’s of rubbish reduction, it [...]
Our obsession for owning new, damage-free devices means a plethora of us throwing away out-of-date and broken devices. When the gadgets end up in landfills, they become a nuclear danger for the environment, wildlife, and the planet in general. An example: Apple hopes to sell millions of iPhone 7 and Plus units in 2017. It means [...]
Recycling has taken the world by storm. While it has become a fashionable trend to recycle, the real-world benefits it offers are quite evident. Many of us have slowly changed habits and are more careful with how we use paper, plastics, and water. Others are even more careful with how they handle nonrenewable resources like gasoline. [...]
With the holidays right around the corner, many of us are already feeling the stress of buying, baking, and decorating for Christmas. The chaos and messiness of the holiday season can be fun, but can often also leave us frustrated and overwhelmed. So why not bring some natural peace and tranquility into your home? "Eco-friendly [...]
How many times have your friends come over and instead of sitting in your living room they head straight for your kitchen, pull up a chair and hang out there for the rest of their visit. That's not a surprise. For many of us, the kitchen is often one of our favorite and most-used rooms in [...]
