Posts tagged ‘footprint’
World Turtle Day: 2010 May 23
Turtles are one of the most endearing and symbolic of America’s native wildlife. Turtles not only fascinate each passing generation of children, who find endless wonders under those hard shells, but they also continue to serve as a timeless role model in children’s literature: the slow and steady turtle, whose patient progress always wins out
Big Steps, Little Footprints with a World of Sustainability & Good Environmental Solutions!
Going Green Expo, Melbourne, Australia “Going Green’ has become a mainstream journey for all of us and on the path easy steps can be taken to lighten our footprint and shape the sustainable future. With consumer demands for more and more of the latest solutions it’s getting easier and easier to realistically achieve. And you
What Are the Best Recycling Methods?
Many people think that recycling is the be all and end all of helping this planet, however, this is simply not true, as many people have seen there are no truly perfect ways for recycling but true recycling does no start at the bin, it starts with the buying of products.
Top Green Work from Home Tips
Find a jobIdeally, you’ll be able to talk to your employer about formatting your current job into one you can do from home-even working from home just one or two days a week can make a big impact on the environment. But if your boss is one of the many who aren’t willing to let
Stay Green, Balanced and Happy
Start managing your life to help keep our earth green and your life balanced. Hard times are challenging at best but they are also a great opportunity to get creative. Going green is all about conserving resources.
Turn the Dial to Cold Water
Doing the laundry has a bigger impact on the planet than you might think. Here are several ways to save energy and water in the laundry room, from careful selection of your machines to using cold water. GREEN LAUNDRY ADVICE Wearing your clothes more than once before tossing them in the dirty pile is the
Melbourne Victoria Australia: Litter and recycling bins
The City of Melbourne provides, empties and maintains: 2750 public street litter bins throughout the municipality, many of which have butt-out plates forCigarette butts incorporated into their design more than 100 public place recycling bins within the streets of the CBD and Southbank more than 150 public place recycling bins in the city’s parks and
Earth Hour 2010
Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm the fourth Earth Hour will be held. thanks to Australian Museum I can’t hide the fact that I love Earth Hour. I love Earth Hour because such a simplistic action has a powerful message. As long as you can reach the light switches you can participate and this event puts the
BYOB: Start a Habit You’ll be Proud to Flaunt
Each year, approximately 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That’s over one million bags per minute. Billions of bags end up as litter each year. The average family of four uses 1000 plastic bags each year of which 80% come from the grocery store, and that is just one family shopping
Ride 2 School Day 2010: March 17
National Ride2School Day, Wednesday 17 March 2010. The Ride2School Program is a behaviour change program which aims to increase the number of students walking and riding to school. Ride2School encourages healthy lifestyles by increasing students’ physical activity levels. It’s good for their health, good for their education, good for the environment and good for the
Embrace the Natives
The loss of natural habitat has resulted in the serious decline in the populations of our native wildlife. Unfortunately, most urban gardens are unwelcoming places for native fauna – offering little food and no safe haven, except for perhaps a few species that are favoured by these altered conditions.
Australian Museum: Environmental tips for 2010
Ideas on how you can help the environment in 2010 Around your home Turn off any lights or appliances in your house you don’t need on. This includes the play station and wii consoles. Have shorter showers (three to four minutes) or have baths. Recycle as much as you can. Really think about something before
