VideoJug: How To Clean Your House The ECO Friendly Way

I just came across this very useful and informative Friends of the Earth video.

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This Wednesday (tomorrow) Sainsbury’s is giving away 2-packs of Super Soft FSC approved toilet rolls to its customers to highlight their new FSC approved range of toilet paper, kitchen roll and tissue. Online customers who shop on Wednesday 27th June will also receive their free FSC toilet rolls. You will need to spend £3 in order to qualify for this freebie and there is a limit of one pack per customer/transaction.

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The green book is exactly what is says on the cover. It’s green in colour, green in composition, and green in content. Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen have gathered together the most comprehensive list of green tips that I’ve come across. They haven’t bothered wasting space in the book with pictures or diagrams, this is just wall-to-wall information, in bite-size, easy to digest chunks.

The green book contains hundreds of tips to transform every facet of your life into a sustainable one, as well as lots of celebrity anecdotes about how they became eco-friendly or live greener lives. It’s an interesting read, great to dip into when you’re feeling the need for inspiration and there’s little doubt that most of us could learn a thing or two about how we can live greener, even if we think that we already do. This book would make a great gift.

Here’s a small selection of my favourite tips in the book:

“If every US household replaced just one pound of canned or jarred fruit with one pound of fresh fruit during each of the three summer months, the total energy saved could operate the kitchen appliances of over twenty-one thousand households for an entire year.”

“Select bamboo as an attractive, affordable, and sustainable alternative to conventionally harvested hardwood floors and you’ll save three “old growth” trees – trees that may have started growing before your grandparents were born.”

“If you need to buy a new phone… consider buying one with a cord…. If 5 percent of US households chose one corded phone over a cordless model, the energy savings would total 140 million kilowatt-hours annually…”

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