Author: Digital Roo
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Eco-friendly Catering
The catering sector provides the opportunity for an entrepreneur to create a business that resonates to his or her personality. It’s a highly competitive market, but also one in which it is easy to create your own niche, and a service that stands out from the crowd. Catering for events provides even more opportunities, with…
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What Are Geosynthetics?
Two issues which have been creating challenges for civil engineers are the rising costs of materials and diminishing sources of aggregate and other components used in the construction of infrastructure. One innovation that’s been showing great promise in alleviating both these issues is the field of geosynthetics, or manmade polymers that can be produced more…
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How To Reduce Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
When you run a business, it is important that you are thinking about the impact that you are having on the environment. These days there are large financial and reputational benefits to demonstrating strong environmental performance. The way that your offices operate, the methods of transport that your staff use to get to work and…
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Pros and Cons of Offsetting Your Carbon Footprint
There’s been a debate about the pros and cons of offsetting for many years now. Leo Hickman, the chief adviser of climate change at WWF-UK believes “carbon offsetting is both a distraction and a delusion.” But Duncan Clark, author of The Rough Guide to Green Living believes “If you offset as part of cutting your…
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The 6 Best Eco Friendly Carpet Cleaning Methods
Keeping Carpets Clean Without Dangerous Chemicals Using eco friendly carpet cleaning methods is the best way for you to keep your rugs and carpets as clean as possible. These methods are simple to learn and great for eliminating stains, smells, and other damage. Eco-friendly cleaning techniques are better than traditional methods because they do not…
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How To Make Your Home Office Eco Friendly
Your home office is a place in which you spend a large amount of your time and because of this, you should invest in it. In addition to making it comfortable and stylish, you might also consider making your office eco-friendly. Set aside some time and a little bit of money to lessen your carbon…
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10 Green Business Ideas
The idea of following a “green” lifestyle is by no means a new concept but the almost universal realisation that our activities are causing immense damage to the world’s ecosystems has propelled the cause of global environmentalism to the forefront of political decision making and most people agree that there is no time to lose.…
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Skiing and the Environment
Holidays are certainly not restricted to the summer months but when it comes to choosing a winter break there are two options which outnumber all others. The first is to simply forget all about the winter weather and jet off to the other side of the world and the other is to embrace the delights…
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REACH Regulations – More EU Red Tape or a Chance to Save The Planet?
European Union legislators seem to be forever coming up with increasingly complex rules and regulations, but most people agree that the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulations (REACH) is the most complex, expensive and most difficult to implement of any EU legislation to date. It came into operation on 1st June 2007 and its…
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Energy Saving Doors and Windows
Along with walls and roofs, doors and windows form the elemental parts of all habitable buildings. They are so familiar that they can easily be taken for granted but, for those looking to make energy savings, these humble apertures can offer scope for significant improvements in terms of both comfort and energy savings. Energy Saving…
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How to Drive in an Eco-Friendly Way
We all know that cars are one of the major CO2 producers, but we also all rely on our cars for work, errands, and socialising too much to give them up. There are however easy steps you can take to minimise the environmental impact of each trip. Eco-friendly driving basically comes down to using as…
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How to Make Your Business Energy Efficient
Go Green: How to Make Your Business Energy-Efficient Making your business more energy efficient is easier than you might think. Even small changes can make a big difference. By going green, you can save money on overheads and also promote a positive brand image for your company. Your customers will know that they’re supporting a…
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The Best Hybrid Cars in 2016
Not too many years ago choosing a new car was a relatively simple matter. Car manufacturers offered small, medium or large models and occasionally a “sports” car. How things have changed. Today’s car buyers are confronted with a vast array of different choices from city cars to SUVs and crossovers with an equally bewildering choice…
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Do Electric Cars Make Environmental Sense?
Electric and hybrid car cynics will argue that these green vehicles do not actually make environmental sense because they have higher manufacturing and energy costs. Whilst this is true when you take into account the full lifetime of the vehicle and its greener impact on the environment once manufactured and in use then they are…
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What is a Sustainably Managed Forest?
Throughout history wood has always been a vital resource. However as the world’s population grew the pressure from increased demand, plus the need for alternative use of the land covered by forest, led to its destruction at an unsustainable rate. Aside from its use in fuel, in cooking, for paper and as a construction material,…
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Eco-Friendly Construction Materials
Drawing up plans for any new building project can be an exciting time but for those of us who care about the environment it can also be very challenging. All projects large and small throw up all kinds of obstacles from getting the necessary permissions to raising the finance but even when all of these…
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5 Green Investment Ideas
Environmental campaigners are always ready to offer advice regarding ways to make a positive difference in reducing damage to our planet but much of this advice comes in the form of attempts to influence Government policies or helping people to choose an eco-friendly lifestyle and the business world has remained largely detached from this whole…
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What does eco-friendly mean?
Eco-friendly Definition and Meaning The term “Eco-friendly” seems to be appearing everywhere these days along with other synonyms “Environmentally Friendly”, “Nature Friendly” and “Green” but there is some misunderstanding about what, if anything, such terms actually mean. So what does eco friendly mean? The most simple definition of eco-friendly is that it describes something that…
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What is Climate Change?
When considering the meaning of the expression “Climate Change” the first thing to remember is that weather and climate are not the same thing. Weather by its very nature refers to short term events which can be very changeable but climate refers to an appraisal of the average meteorological conditions over an extended period and…
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Are greenhouses good or bad for the environment?
Are Greenhouses Green? With so much gloom and doom surrounding the subject of global warming and the greenhouse effect, it is only natural that many people are now questioning whether actual greenhouses are a good or bad thing. Do greenhouses enable a greener more eco-friendly lifestyle or are they just an environmental catastrophe on a…
