It will take seventeen trees a whole life time to offset the amount of carbon emissions that only one average household creates in just one year.
ClickGreen is a wonderful new way to help your environment. It’s an easy way to offset a whole week’s carbon emmissions, and that’s just by signing up! You can do [...]
The Home Energy Project helps students prove that every household can save energy. It provides education and tips on how to save and improve the environment and reduce the costs of energy consumption.
It is an educational program suitable for years 7–9 students. It was designed to match the curriculum requirements for science and has practical [...]
Most councils now collect recyclable items separately from the general rubbish, which is great. But there are some items that can’t be collected by councils but can still be recycled, and there are many recycling collection sites around Australia.
Planet Ark runs a website which is very easy to use to find out your nearest recycling [...]
Who on earth cares that the planet is in danger, that we are destroying our home?
Actually, a lot of people care and are trying to do something about it. And those little things we do to save energy and water really are important. Just look at how we have reduced the amount of water used [...]
Have you noticed the increasing number of magazines that are going online instead of having hard copies?
There are obvious advantages to this for the publishers
reduced costs of printing and layout
longer deadlines can be allowed - without having print times, the magazine can be prepared closer to publish dates
the ability to refer to older articles [...]
A little while ago we added Pirrella to our listings, and we think its pretty cool!
Not only do these fan blade covers save you work and time as the blades won’t need cleaning, they also keep you off ladders and chairs which is much safer. We also love the fact that fewer people will use [...]
Both energy and water are precious resources that we need to conserve and respect. As individuals, we can do many small things to help - and these small things do add up to be significant.
During the current drought, many urban dwellers have learned to conserve water and the water usage in our capital cities has [...]
How much water do you use in a day? A couple of litres? A hundred litres?
If you live in Denmark, you probably use about 120litres a day. However, if you live in Perth, it is closer to 500 litres per person per day. That’s a lot of water.
Well, with the average shower (6 minutes with [...]
The fact is that we humans have made a huge impact on our planet, and now is the time to do seomthign to at least reduce that damage. That’s what being green is all about - conserving our resoucres, protecting our planet and keeping Earth a beautiful place for us, our children and our children’s [...]