Use electricity wisely
South Africa’s state owned electricity provider Eskom leads by example in this cool advertising campaign. [via: WattWatt]
Climate change affects everyone… even janitors!
A comedic look at how janitors feel about office workers who can’t be bothered to recycle. From the wonderful Nature Conservancy. Adendum: Having only ever once watched an episode of Scrubbs, I completely missed that this was the grumpy janitor from that series, and that it was a hospital and not an office. Thank you …
Free DIY Planet Repairs toolkit for Londoners
The Mayor of London is giving away a free DIY Planet Repairs toolkit to all residents of Greater London. The free kit contains a few things to help you make small but important changes around the home: Booklet – a practical guide with simple and money saving ideas 4-minute shower timer – to help you …
How to: Install loft insulation
VideoJug: A Guide To Loft Insulation
3 ways to keep up with EcoStreet
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Google’s latest green offering: the UK Carbon Footprint Project
Google has launched the UK Carbon Footprint Project to help people in the UK to calculate, track and compare our carbon footprints with others living in the UK in 3 steps. Step 1: When you decide to get started calculating your carbon footprint, Google will take you to your own personalised iGoogle page with a …
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The importance of being vegan: World Vegan Day
Today is World Vegan Day 2007 and this year the Vegan Society is asking “Is it green to eat meat?”. The answer that they’ve come up with is a resounding NO. Here’s why. You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, …
Detox your environment with houseplants
In our efforts to save energy resources, we are increasingly sealing our homes and other buildings off from the outside air. This also means that we are sealing in gases from synthetic materials that we furnish and equip our homes and offices with. As a result, indoor air pollution has become a widespread problem and …
Uganda’s plastic bag problem
“Like many other countries around the world, plastic bags litter Uganda. They poison the soil, block drains and create an unsightly health hazard. So the government listened to the environmental concerns and banned the bags but the clean-up campaign’s not going according to plan.”