Going Green At Home
Reduce energy costs by making energy
If your home has a roof or roofs which faces south or within 90 degrees of south then you can make the sun work for you. Energy from the sun is entirely free, so once you’ve paid for the installation your electricity costs will be reduced and over time your system will pay for itself. Our neighbours have fitted solar panels not only on one roof of their bungalow but also on a south facing roof of their garage. Now, as these people are fortunate enough to live abroad for 6 months of the year you may wonder why they would bother having them fitted. The answer is that the panels will generate electricity all year round and be feeding it into the grid even when they are not at home. Under the government’s scheme, they will get a payback on the cost. It is best to get advice from experts such as SEHBAC Solar and find out the kinds of cost and savings you can expect and they will outline some advantages such as: [Read More...]
Really clean homes also have clean air.
So many people think there house is clean because they use lots of cleaning products all over the house. Overtly it may seem clean, but the atmosphere will have chemical particles floating about. With our hermetically sealed homes there is also a problem of build up of nasty stuff in the air which if there are damp patches will include mould spores. Having good ventilation and opening windows to get air circulated in the spring and summer is a good idea. If you have animals and carpets on the floor then almost certainly there will be eggs of fleas and animal dandruff not to mention dust mites. [Read More...]
Going Green With Shopping
Eat local and buy local
Transporting food all over the world uses a lot of the world’s energy resources and as such is a large contribution to global warming. There is now a major movement to reduce these food miles and encourage local production. There are a number of related trends contributing to this. Firstly, more people are now growing [...]
Watch out for Greenwashing
As Greenpeace say in their website about Greenwashing, green is the new black. “Green” is the thing to be, and corporations and smaller businesses of all sizes are rushing onto the green wagon to get the benefit of association with environmental issues. Large corporations are making huge efforts (and wasting much energy it seems) in [...]
Going Green With Transport
Buying Green: Hybrid cars
More and more people are looking to buy hybrid cars because there are now just about as many pros as there are cons. Hybrid vehicles have an electric motor as well as an internal combustion engine which reduces fuel consumption and cuts CO2 emissions. The additional power is given by an electric motor which runs [...]