Eco-Friendly Weddings: Green Ways You Can Have that Special Day
For those of you that have the engagement ring on your finger, the next step is to plan your wedding and knowing where to start is hard enough. Planning a wedding can be stressful, but there is no need to put extra stress on the environment. It is time to think green and save...
How to Grow a Tree
Planting a tree seem so simple. It just grows without any real attention. In actual fact, it takes a little more than a shovel and some water. This is true when you plant a tree as a sapling, in fertile soil, in an area with a climate that is appropriate to the tree. When...
Prefab Green Homes – The Way To Future Sustainability And Environmental Responsibility
Green homes are the way to the future and are characterized by an environmental approach to the design, construct and resources used in building and renovating houses. As natural resources are becoming more valuable in society’s eyes so too are natural homes. Eco prefab homes are also increasing in popularity due to a variety of...
Modern Airships Not Yet Sustainable
Air flight has a huge negative impact on the problem of global warming and carbon emissions. While the primary greenhouse gas emission from powered aircraft in flight is carbon dioxide, other emissions may include nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide (which bonds with oxygen to become carbon dioxide), incompletely burned hydrocarbons, tetra-ethyl...
How To Recycle Batteries
Today almost everything uses batteries – from wristwatches and mobile phones to laptop computers and cars. Anything that runs on electricity without having to rely on an external power source for practical reasons requires a battery. However, as great as batteries are for making portable devices, they are not built to last forever, even the...
Eco-Friendly Furniture: Elemental for a Green Home
With environmental awareness at a high, people are looking for ways to do their part in order to lessen the carbon footprint they leave behind. What role does our home furniture have in becoming more eco-friendly? A lot, it turns out. Furniture, although static parts of our daily lives offering us comfort or a...
How To Stop Global Warming: Small, Significant Things You Can Do
You might think that stopping climate change is not a one man job and you are right, it isn’t. But this does not mean that your efforts are utterly useless. How to stop global warming One of the first steps you can take is becoming a little more self sustainable. Start a vegetable garden in...
Green Modular Homes Growing in Design Diversity
Although many find a modern home style to be visually pleasing, many others find the minimal clean lines unappealing and one characteristic that has prevented some people from purchasing an eco-friendly modular home. Thanks to popular demand, the design styles are expanding beyond a modern “efficient.” When most people think of modular homes a vision...
An Underground House Enables Unique Sustainable Living
Unless you are a huge Tolkien fan, you might not have considered an underground house option, yet they are becoming quite popular and some designs are unique and beautiful. Also, having a home like this is not only a true “hobbit home”, but it has its benefits as well. You might wonder why people...
Organic Food Preservation Methods: Beyond Canning
Food preservation has long been a necessary pursuit of humans through the ages. While short term food preservation methods are largely dominated by today’s refrigerators, and long term preservation is dominated by canning or freezing, our ancient cultures thrived without such technology by collecting, drying and storing grain in large ceramic pots. Hunter-gatherers preserved...
Ecotourism Benefits the Galapagos Islands?
Ecotourism sounds like it is good for the environment; after all it has the word “eco” in it. But like many things too much of a good thing can cause irreversible damage and this is true for the environment and those wishing to visit pristine areas. Take for example the case of the Galapagos Islands. ...
Sustainable Packaging: Making A Difference?
Sustainable packaging design is one viable way of providing packaging that is environmentally smart and responsible. Ideally, minimal to no packaging is ideal, but not always practical. So alternatively, choosing carefully choosing packaged products for purchase can make a difference in how we preserve our resources. Sustainable packaging, like the word ‘sustainable’ is loosely defined,...
