PERFECT BACHELOR CHAIR

No need for the rubbish bin - just drink and fill. Not surprisingly, it was designed by a male student. Not sure if this is recycling, genius or laziness. What do you think?

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CHECKLIST FOR GREENING YOUR HOME

A simple checklist to green your home

• Insulation in your walls and roof
• Turn your lights off when you go out of the room
• Window treatments on your windows
• Low energy lighting
• Appliances with low energy ratings
• Do away with the remote and turn appliances of at the wall (was there obesity before remotes?)
• Block all drafts from under and around doors. Check the seals in your windows – even your fridge!

Want to know more about greening your house? Have a look at these websites and take the carbon footprint test.

Look at Tanya Ha's series of books on greening your life.

Earth Hour 2009

This became a sort of viral earth conscious campaign to make people aware of how much energy we are using overall. The thought of changing the world can seem overwhelming but by breaking it down to an hour, it shows what we can all do in a very simple way of just turning out the lights. Most of us want to keep the luxuries in our life and don’t want to feel like we have to give up everything to save the world. Well we don’t, but we do need to modify and be aware of what we do on a daily basis that can reduce something simple in our home as our power bills.