All Entries in the "Green Living" Category

Water Purification With Ancient Tradition

According to the official statics over one billion people drink water that is not exactly pure and the risk of diseases and viruses increases dramatically. The NGO Water Aid launched even more stressful facts – 1.2 million children are dying every year due to illnesses, caused by dirty water.
The researchers are [...]

How to Politely Refuse a Plastic Bag (Graphic)

Fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can use when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic bag that you don’t want (which will contribute to the planet’s ruin).
What do you say when you’re given one?

Via: Good.is

Top Energy-Saving Refrigerators: Cut Your Fridge’s Energy Consumption with these Ideas

Why you should think about your fridge’s efficiency? Chill your electricity bills with a more efficient refrigerator.

Think Green, Repair Instead Of Replacing

What do you do when something is broken? The standard answer would be – buying а new one! Think twice and think greener! Far better turns out to be the repairing, especially of those broken devices, which are powered by electricity.
For instance, according to experts the lifetime of a washing machine [...]

5 Interesting Lighting Advances: From Focused LEDs To Solar-Powered Floor Lamps

Here are some innovative ideas that are changing the lighting landscape.

Organic Coloring For Chemical Free Clothing

Dyeing your clothes ecologically and by yourself is not actually such a complicated matter.

All you need is a blender, a bucket, the ingredients and a bit of patience. Some of the ingredients we will talk about are about 4,500 years old (and we do not mean you need to buy them from an antiques store, [...]

Ecological Parking Lots Are The New Trend

Finally, there is an alternative to impervious asphalt-paved parking lots that contaminate freshwater systems, increase pollution and flood risk, and have a biodiversity value of zero.
The sealants applied to protect the asphalt are known pollutants as well. Due to the harmful effects of asphalt, pervious concrete and vegetated swales are the [...]

You Are What You Wear

With the years passing, the nature is more and more affected by the constant need of mankind for resources, regardless the field they are used in, this resulting in severe damage of the green areas till modern times untouched by civilization.
In spite of being hard or even impossible to stop by the [...]

What Is E-Waste?

With the changing of the times and our world becoming so much more technologically advanced we are also experiencing a new form of environmental issue and that new form of environmental issue is called E-Waste.
E-waste is the disposal of electronic devices such as computers, cell phones, iPods, refrigerators, TV sets and other [...]

Over 300 Plants Were Discovered By The Biodiversity Researchers In 2009

The Kew Scientists have discovered an array of plant varieties mostly from the tropical forests, this year.
The diversity of external features, habit and habitat of the plants are very surprising for the scientists.
More than 200 species of them have been identified and botanists of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are happy to [...]