Geyser Tips Geysers are generally the largest energy consumers in a household (reputedly anywhere from 25-40%). If you have any geysers in the building – set the temperature down to 60C or even to 55C – geysers are often set much higher than this and doing this will help you save energy and money!
Purity. Energy. Balance Named after the Hindu goddess of refreshment and well-being, ila is a company with a vocation: to bring purity, energy and balance into everyday life through its range of luxury skincare products. Founded by registered nurse, aromatherapist and yoga teacher Denise Leicester,
Green Charcoal To Save Forests Article by: Mary AlexanderAn environmental NGO in northern Senegal is about to go to market with “green charcoal” – a household fuel produced from agricultural waste materials to replace wood and charcoal in cooking stoves.With Senegal’s trees disappearing, finding
The World´s Healthiest Mattress Sealy has launched two new eco-friendly mattress collections, Bamboo and Aloe vera. The Bamboo collection features bamboo ticking to the posturepocket and posturepedic mattress ranges. Bamboo ticking is natural, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, breathable, soft, absorb
Tetrapak Recycling Collection Depots Now Countrywide! After months of hearing complaints from people that Tetrapak only had one recycling plant in Germiston, here is the good news… Tetrapak now has recycling drop off points countrywide. There are 18 different collection points around Cape
The ecoF3 A university team in the UK has developed an eco-friendly racing car designed to run on chocolate and vegetable oil. The new racing car is the ecoF3 from WorldFirst, a small team from Warwick University in the UK, which envisages the car – or at least some of its technologies – one day
Your Guide To Natural Fabrics With the plethora of fabrics out there, we thought we´d give you a breakdown and explanation of the most eco-friendly fabrics out there. These fabrics include: bamboo, organic cotton, organic wool, hemp and silk.Bamboo Bamboo is actually a grass and is the fas
Install low-flush toilets. Alternatively, make a simple water displacement device such as a brick or a filled water bottle placed in the tank to reduce the amount of water used for flushing.
What Have We Done…? I watched The 11th Hour this weekend and was thoroughly disturbed. The message it gave was, the environment will survive, its the human race that will not survive as we are hastening the conditions for our own demise. The earth will regenerate as it has all the time in the worl
Organic Farming Needed To Save Bees Europe´s beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than 10 years as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and farming methods says international beekeeping body Apimondia. “With this level of mortality, European beekeepers can survive only another eith