Rather surprisingly, wood burner stoves are highly energy efficient. The stoves are designed to burn wood as efficiently as possible, massively reducing the amount of soot, smoke and ash produced compared to a standard open fire. Wood burner stoves are also designed to avoid sending all of the heat energy up the flue, directing it outwards into the room.
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If you were lucky enough to receive lots of Christmas Cards, then think about how you recycle them. Many supermarkets have started offering Christmas Card recycling schemes, which is a really easy way to recycle your cards. However, you can also cut up your Christmas cards to make your own gift tags!
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Now that Christmas is over, it’s time to think about recycling your Christmas tree? That’s assuming you have a real tree that is.
Why have a real Christmas tree? Well, they are more eco-friendly, that’s why! Although artificial trees can last for many years, they are usually made from metal and various plastics. Artificial trees require a great deal of energy to make, and they may also lead to the creation of by-products including lead. The average life of a fake tree is just 6 years, and when they are dumped, they’ll take hundreds of years to break down.
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If you live in a big city, or you live in an apartment, flat or maisonette, you probably don’t have a garden. You might be lucky enough to have a small patio or balcony, but probably no grass. Plants are good for the soul, and you can have some plants around your garden-less home by using indoor planters or window box planters.
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Understandably, it’s hard work coming up with new tips for every single day. Sometimes I get ideas from you guys too! Therefore if you have any great eco tips, please let me know. If you send me an eco tip, I’ll give you a link or two back to your websites in return. I’m particularly looking for eco tips in the following areas, although I welcome anything that’s not already featured on the site.
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If you are not using your microwave, ensure it’s completely switched off. Simply powering the clock can use more energy than heating your food! It’s another example of one of those standby energy guzzlers!
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Painting the house has always been a messy, time-consuming job, but thanks to the new VOC-free paints, it doesn’t have to be a smelly job too. VOCs or Volatile Organic Compounds are the compounds in traditional latex and oil-based house paints that evaporate into the air and cause the odour that we’re all familiar with.
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The World Christmas Tree 2008 project is a project where you upload your picture of your Christmas Tree, and you could end up saving 1 square foot of forest!
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Merry Christmas to the readers of Daily Eco Tips! I hope you have a wonderful holiday!
To mark this festive day, here’s a Christmas-themed eco-tip. No doubt you’ll be having Christmas dinner today, probably more food than you’ll normally eat in a few days. However, what do you do with the leftovers? Don’t waste them! Here are a few ideas.
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Caviar may be considered a luxury for some, however, regardless of how its considered, all food should have the least impact on the enviroment.
Petrossian was the first distributor to work with sturgeon farms to provide an alternative for caviar connoisseurs. Though the sturgeon is a notoriously fickle fish, these farms are continually improving their feed and farming techniques to create an environmentally sound yet superior product. And with a cost as low as a third of the cost the alternative, sustainable caviar is considerably more affordable too.
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If you’ve run out of time to send conventional Christmas cards, then why not send an ecard instead? Electronic cards (or eCards) allow you to send someone special a card at the last minute via email. This means you can let someone know you’re thinking of them, even if you forgot to send a card in the post. eCards are usually free to send and often come with music and animation.
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Bleeding your radiators releases any air trapped inside them. By bleeding your radiators regularly, you improve how efficiently they heat up your rooms. If you get into the habit of checking your radiators regularly, you should find you can reduce the amount of radiators that you have on. You should even be able to save money too.
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With all the bad news about unemployment rising, you might already be considering a new career? Perhaps you already have a variety of skills that you could apply to a green business?
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According to government estimates, over 300,000,000 pounds of single use drycleaner bags each year end up filling America’s landfills and killing our wild and marine life.
Now, just as smaller versions of reusable bags are working to eliminate this problem from grocers and retail stores, there is an alternative at drycleaners as well. The Green Garmento starts out as a hanging laundry bag then transforms into a duffel bag to deliver your dirty clothes to a drycleaner, then transforms into a hanging garment bag to protect your clean clothes for the trip home, and not a single plastic bag in sight!
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After oil, coffee is the world’s most commonly traded commodity: North America uses 60% of the world’s paper cups, or about 130 billion each year which requires about 50 million trees and 33 billion gallons of water. Without a doubt, our morning fix has an impact on the environment.
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Did you know that maintaining indoor humidity at around 45 to 65 percent is a great way to avoid sinus infections and sore throats? Electrical humidifiers are fantastic at regulating air humidity, but they cost money to run. An easier way to add humidity to a room, is to put a few areca palms in it.
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Did you know that most wrapping paper is not recyclable? We spend fortunes on gift wrapping paper, just for a few moments of pleasure. Take a look at Furoshiki, the Japanese art of folding cloth for wrapping gifts. Using techniques similar to Origami, Furoshiki uses a collection of folding techniques to attractively wrap gifts.
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They do say that it’s the thought that counts, however, what’s the point in giving a gift that’s unwanted? If you’ve spent a fortune travelling to see someone (hotels and transport are far from cheap these days), you might not have the pennies to buy an expensive gift. So here’s a great eco-friendly alternative, present your loved ones with a Gift of Time.
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Part of the charm of holiday gift-giving is in the wrapping. But when I searched for eco-friendly paper and ribbon near my apartment, located in the center of Washington, DC, I couldn’t find any. It made no sense to give earth-friendly gifts wrapped with new materials.
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