The alarm goes off. It's 6:30am. You know it's a Monday. What do you do? You can either go back to bed, phone in sick and surf Facebook, or you get up...helping you through this process of the morning news if your daily vice. Be it tea or coffee, I'm pretty sure you've got one of those lovely hot drinks by your side. But have you ever considered which is the more environmentally friendly? I bet you haven't! Coffee is the best thing in the world...or is it? Let's start ... Full Story

As we continue to become more environmentally conscious, many of us are looking for the greenest printers around to meet our needs. This is important as the printing industry contributes a great deal of pollution to our environment each year as energy is consumed and waste is produced.  Today there are new technologies that help to decrease the harmful effects of printing but not all companies choose to implement them. We all want to be green, don't we? It has become a trend in recent years to advertise a ... Full Story

Perhaps you’re concerned about the amounts of chemicals and pesticides that are showing up not only in our foods, but our bodies.  Of course you’d like to keep yourself and your family as healthy as possible.  Or maybe you or a loved one has been diagnosed with an illness, or the idea of simpler living appeals to you. You want your food to be free of this! You can cook a completely ‘green’ meal, even if you’re living in a small flat with no garden.  It takes a little ... Full Story

When we head off to work at our offices there is this burning question about how environmentally unfriendly we are and it is a label that a lot of us hate being tied to. When I worked in an office, I hated the idea of people thinking less of me and it can bring you down quite a bit unless you try to improve the situation for the better. A green office? I remember working in a council office a few years ago within their planning department and it ... Full Story

Something terrible is happening to bees. Hundreds of millions of them are either vanishing or dropping dead. Beekeepers are tearing their hives out in frustration. Look how cute these things are?! Fingers are pointing at a number of contributing factors. Relatively new pesticides designed to impregnate the seeds of crops before they have grown could be a potential problem. Climate change has been isolated as a likely cause (though to be fair climate change could plausibly be blamed for a raucous sex scandal in the tabloids these days). The nasty ... Full Story

This countdown contains no CFCs. 10. Reign of Fire Based on the premise that constructing a new London Underground line leads to waking dormant dragons, Reign of Fire gets progressively more ridiculous from that point onwards. With a legion of fire-breathing monsters laying waste to pretty much the entire world, it is left to the few remaining humans to slay the beasts. By the end of the film pretty much everything is dead, the environment ruined, and Christian Bale’s career is hanging one-handed off a cliff like a starving man with a ... Full Story

Hands up who doesn't know what an iPhone is? Good. Fair enough. It's fair to say that the iPhone has changed the way we think about mobile phones and with their apps, Apple has changed the mobile landscape forever. But I'm sure there's one question that has yet to be answered - is the iPhone green? Back in 2007, Greenpeace attacked Apple over its claims to be a company with good green credentials. Greenpeace released a report that included an analysis of the chemicals used in the production of the iPhone. They claimed that whilst other phone companies had either eliminated ... Full Story

As children get older they accumulate more and more toys and eventually space becomes a premium. Something has to give so which toys is it a good idea to keep and which ones should you recycle? Which ones to keep and which ones to recycle?? Around 40 million toys are thrown away each year with some 13 million toys being put in the dustbin. Damaged or partially damaged toys often end up in landfill sites where they add to a growing problem of waste. Toys made of plastic are not ... Full Story

Car boot sales are popular in Britain and they are growing in popularity in Australia and parts of Europe. A car boot sale is a kind of market in which private sellers set up ‘stalls’ to sell a range of goods such as clothes, household goods, garden goods, books and toys. Sellers may be professional people who make a regular income and pay tax on their earnings or they may be people who simply want to sell some of their old unwanted goods. Items for sale may be new or second-hand.... Full Story

I don’t think anyone can argue that we’re not greener than we were five years ago.  Sure, there are places on the planet that haven’t gotten the message yet, and there are lots of places at war, which is definitely not a ‘green’ pastime.  But in most of the world, people are finally realizing that this planet wasn’t meant to sustain unlimited amounts of people drawing unlimited riches out of it without putting something back. It won't last forever, our continuing pillaging But we still haven’t made large strides towards ... Full Story