Fresh fruits and vegetables, for most people, evoke a feeling of healthy living. However, many times your fresh produce may not be as fresh as it seems. It might come from another city, county, state or country.
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Archive for October, 2008
Tip #59 - Save Money With Menstrual Pad Alternatives
by Dan | October 30, 2008 | In Health | No Comments (Yet!)
This money-saving tip is for the ladies. Reusable menstrual products are a great way to save money and reduce waste. They’re better for your body too, because they don’t include the nasty chemicals often found in traditional tampons and menstrual pads.
Think bleaches and dioxins to make them white and who knows what else… have you ever noticed how there’s no list of ingredients on that box of tampons or disposable pads?
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Tip #58 - Save Forests: Choose Eco-Friendly Printing
by Dan | October 29, 2008 | In Home, Work | No Comments (Yet!)
Sustainability today means more than just changing out the light bulbs, carpooling and biking. There are many other opportunities available that help to reduce carbon footprint and saving trees is a huge part of it. Think about how they say that 17 trees make only one ton of paper when printing out numerous documents! Here are a few tips that will help you to save forests.
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Tip #57 - Energy Saving with your Computer
by Dan | October 28, 2008 | In Technology | No Comments (Yet!)
If you want to save some energy with your PC, there are a number of very simple tips you can use without buying a new computer or buying some energy saving gadget.
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Tip #56 - Learn those useful Recycling Codes
by Dan | October 27, 2008 | In Recycling | 2 Comments
Some plastics are easy to recycle, some are not. However, remembering which is which is hard work. I certainly don’t manage it. Therefore here’s a list of what those codes all mean.
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Tip #55 - Make your own Halloween Treat Tubes
by Dan | October 24, 2008 | In Celebrations, Children, Food | No Comments (Yet!)
Another interesting Halloween party idea is to make your own Halloween treat tubes from old toilet roll tubes and recycled paper.
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Tip #54 - Switch off Bluetooth and WiFi
by Dan | October 23, 2008 | In Technology | No Comments (Yet!)
Here’s a technology-based eco tip today that saves energy and money too. Bluetooth and WiFi (as in wireless networking) are 2.4GHz radio data communication standards, but are often referred to as features in mobiles phones and personal computers (PCs). Bluetooth and WiFi devices are typically very power-hungry, and therefore use significantly more energy when enabled on a device.
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Tip #53 - Cheap and Easy Water-Saving Toilet Trick
by Dan | October 22, 2008 | In Water | 2 Comments
If you can’t afford a new toilet, and your old one is not up to scratch, here’s a simple trick for you. This technique can easily save you a litre or two of water per flush, as well as recycling a plastic bottle.
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Tip #52 - Sign a Petition Against Excess Packaging
by Dan | October 21, 2008 | In Campaigns, Food | No Comments (Yet!)
Did you know that the UK produces enough packaging waste in one year to fill Wembley Stadium almost 9 times over! If that’s difficult to imagine, perhaps you should know that each person in the UK spends about £125 on packaging a year! eek!
Even though the general public are being encouraged to recycle (and fined for not doing so) , it’s actually businesses that contribute to about 90% of all waste. Businesses are currently asked to do nothing. So what can we do about this?
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Tip #51 - Ideas for a Green Halloween Party
by Dan | October 20, 2008 | In Celebrations | No Comments (Yet!)
In the final eco tip for Halloween, here are some ways to make your Halloween party completely green.
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Green Blogs that Want Eco-Friendly Guest Posts
by Dan | October 19, 2008 | In Green Resources | No Comments (Yet!)
Whilst I’ve been promoting Daily Eco Tips and EnviroGadget.com, I’ve been contacting other green bloggers asking them if they would like me to write a guest article for their site. In return, I gained backlinks to my sites. In nearly all cases, those bloggers also wrote an article for Daily Eco Tips.
To help you promote your own green blog, below is a list of eco-friendly blogs who welcome guest posts. Please feel free to contact these individuals via their blogs. If you don’t know what guest blogging is, I suggest you read this article on why guest blogging is a good idea.
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Tip #50 - Eco-Friendly Halloween Candy & Sweets
by Dan | October 17, 2008 | In Celebrations, Children, Food | No Comments (Yet!)
You might be getting trick or treaters in a couple of weeks, so here’s a collection of eco-friendly treat ideas for Halloween.
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When you give yourself a glass of water, do you run the tap until the water turns cold? If so, you could be wasting up to 2 litres of water in the time it takes for the water to be cold enough.
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Tip #48 - Eco-Friendly Halloween Pumpkins
by Dan | October 15, 2008 | In Celebrations, Food | No Comments (Yet!)
With Halloween fast approaching, here are some ideas on how you can keep your Halloween pumpkins eco-friendly.
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Tip #47 - How to Go Green on a Student Budget
by Dan | October 14, 2008 | In Student Life | 1 Comment
Today the green movement is taking over the world, and even though many people would like to go completely organic or build a sustainable home, their budget might not let them. This is especially true for college students, who struggle every semester to get by on their student budget. A near-empty wallet makes it much easier to choose between ninety-nine cent ramen noodles or $2.99 organic pasta.
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Tip #46 - Reuse Spray Bottles
by Dan | October 13, 2008 | In Children, Reuse | No Comments (Yet!)
All those spray bottles for household cleaners have tons of second-life uses. They can be used to water plants if you wash them out thoroughly first. Or, make your own homemade cleaners. Also, they make good kid’s squirt guns or cat training aids (cats hate water and this can be used to humanely discipline them).
Spray bottles can even be refilled with the original cleaning product by purchasing the concentrated version and mixing it with water.
Tip #45 - Avoid Disposable Dish Clothes
by Dan | October 10, 2008 | In Reuse | No Comments (Yet!)
Think twice before purchasing cleaning products. Using disposable wipes and dusters contribute significantly to our landfill waste. Despite their being soaked in chemicals, avoiding anything that is disposable can really help.
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Tip #44 - Use your Fridge or Freezer Efficiently
by Dan | October 9, 2008 | In Food, Home | No Comments (Yet!)
If you make your own ready meals, as I suggested in my avoiding microwave meals tip, then here’s a simple tip to save energy with your fridge or freezer.
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Tip #43 - Make a Green Chocolate Cake
by Dan | October 8, 2008 | In Food | No Comments (Yet!)
Fancy making a green chocolate cake? Ok, so it’s not actually green in colour, nor does it use tree leaves, but it does use eco-friendly ingredients! Using a combination of unbleached flour, natural sugar, whole wheat flour and Fairtrade chocolate, you end up with an eco-friendly and vegan-friendly cake!
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Tip #42 - Looking for a textbook? Rent one
by Dan | October 7, 2008 | In Student Life | No Comments (Yet!)
If you’re a student you’re probably already struggling with the many expensive textbooks you have to buy. The problem is that these textbooks are not only a burden on your budget (average of 1,000 dollars per year in the US), but also impact the environment with all the trees cut down for their production. So what can you do about it?
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