Breathe Easier in Your Home
HEPA Air Filter Guide & 7 Simple Steps to Cleaner Indoor Air Take a bus ride at noon and choose a seat where you can have a clear view of the door opening and closing. Take a close look at…
Don’t Be So Trashy: Curbing Food Waste
With its people being multi-racial, the country celebrates various festivals almost all year round. Food, a favourite past time of the locals and a key point of interest for visitors, pile high on the tables as a result of gracious…
Throw A GREEN Kids Birthday Party And Help Save Planet Earth
A birthday party is an event that everyone looks forward to, especially as a kid. The good old times when our parents threw us birthday parties with birthday cakes to be shared with friends. There will be games of musical…
The Tencel Tale: A Great Story About A Great Clothing Material
In my previous article I wrote about the fact that what is natural may not always be good. I also suggested that what is unnatural can be good. This smacks of hubris. Are humans smarter than Mother Nature? I’m not…
Save the Earth: Wasteful things you can live without (Part 2)
Electric pencil sharpeners A task performed since generations ago now ‘needs’ technology to do. Pencils are now being sharpened the ‘modern’ way with an electric pencil sharpener that runs on batteries. What happens when these batteries are discarded? The lead…
Save the Earth: Wasteful things you can live without (Part 1)
Despite humans being the ‘smartest’ animals, we produce tonnes of waste, most often deliberately at times without caring if it would someday affect the lives inhabiting the Earth. As of the year 2008 alone, 250 million tonnes of waste was…
25 Simple Tips to Keep Cool without Air Cond
The current hot spell can be a killer. We know that. However, that does not warrant us to run out to get air-conditioner units for the whole house. Cooling our homes in this hot weather can account for 45 percent…
End of the World?
“The Earth is getting tired and will breakdown soon if we continue to torture it with endless destructive activities” Global Warming Global warming is an issue that has continuously plagued the earth. It was a hot topic in the 90s…
Ideas for Gifting Green
Gifting green is not just about giving gifts that are friendly on the environment. Giving a gift starts from the process of shopping for one, right to the presenting of the much-thought about parcel. As such, if you intend to…
Beautiful Balcony Plants to Control Mosquitoes
Is the municipality’s anti-mosquito fumigation getting you down? Are you tired of applying jars of strange smelling, sticky mosquito repellents? Or do you, like me, love pottering in the garden and do not want to spend your time swatting mosquitoes?…
