Environmental research and conservation has moved a long way in the last few decades. What was once a fringe movement now involves scientists and research institutes from across the world who try and identify and address the problems caused by our presence on the environment.

Once such thinktank is Worldwatch, a leading research institute that tries to encourage green initiatives in business and society. They issues advice into the latest ways people go green and here are their latest top ten ways to become more eco friendly and save money:

1. Save Energy – They advise you take measures to turn down your thermostat, use energy saving lightbulbs and use eco friendly products and methods when you wash clothes.

2. Save water – they emphasise the importance of water conservation and how showering instead of bathing can drastically reduce our water consumption

3. Save petrol – walking and cycling are possible replacements for he car on many journeys, they suggest.

4. Think about the environment when you eat – Worldwatch suggest you cut back on the meat in your diet as the rearing of livestock has quite a large impact on the environment.

5. Don’t drink bottled water – the thinktank suggests that bottled water creates a lot of waste with empty bottles filling landfills.

6. Buy second hand – by recycling other people’s unwanted items you’ll save money and help the environment.

7.Borrow when possible, they recommend using libraries rather than buying books and hiring tools as examples.

8.Buy longer lasting products and not things that won’t last. Eco-friendly products will save money in the long run too.

9. Try not to dispose of electronics – they urge you to keep hold of old electronics because of the environmental impact of some of the metals and chemicals that make up their composition.

10. Their final suggestion is to try and make your own cleaning products instead of buying harmful cleaners

For more information from Worldwatch why not visit their website.

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Looking for the ways and means to go green? Here are some easy eco-friendly tips for you.

1. Don’t idle your car with your engine running.
2. Air dry your clothes.
3. Put a lid on the containers while cooking food.
4. Stop using air fresheners containing toxic chemicals.
5. Stop using plastic bottles and containers for storing water and food.

Now while the list of eco-friendly tips can actually go on and on; let me stop at this one and explain the most important way to contribute to the environment.

Do you know in US alone over 60 million plastic bottles are added to the landfills? Since these bottles are non-recyclable, their disposal is a difficult thing. They not only crowd the landfills but harm the environment too.

The impact is so huge that taking a small action of saying no to plastic bottles is acclaimed as the best way to go green.

Moreover, do you know that unlike other useful eco-friendly tips, this one is beneficial for your health too?

Here is how-

It is a proven fact that the water supplied to our homes is contaminated with pesticides, chlorine, virus, cysts and metal traces. Now, many people understand this fact and in order to save themselves from the health ailments caused due to consuming such water, they resort to bottled water.

The truth is that bottled water is nothing more than tap water packaged in a dangerous plastic bottle and slapped with a nice packaging.

The quality of the bottled water has always been mired in controversy. There have been examples where it has been proven to be nothing better than what we already get in our kitchen tap.

Moreover, the plastic used for storing this water is another culprit for contaminating the water contained within. This plastic actually leaches into the water and pollutes it. This water becomes unfit for consumption and hence bottled water is not recommended by most of the medical organizations.

Additionally, once the water has been consumed, there is always a problem of disposing the plastic bottle. They reach the landfills and pollute the environment.

Hence use of bottled water harms both – your health as well as the environment.

This is why out of all the eco-friendly tips; saying no to bottled water becomes an important one. But what is the solution in this case? If no tap water and no bottled water are to be consumed, what do we do?

Easy. Get a home water purifier installed. Make sure it is based on the cutting edge technologies of carbon filtration, ion exchange and sub micron filtration. Purify the water at your home and stop depending upon bottled one.

If you need more information on how to choose a good water purifier for your home, visit my website listed below. Use this one tip and ensure the benefits equal to using various eco-friendly tips.

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Businesses are now taking environmental issues much more seriously than they used to.  It is no longer cool to give products away that are just going to be added to our already overstretched landfills.  This is why a lot of promotional products are being manufactured out of raw materials that are sustainable, recyclable, biodegradable and/or run off solar, dynamo or water power.  When considering promotional gifts for your clients, it is important to try to find products that serve a purpose so that they will be used and kept for a long time.   Do you see the added bonus here?  Gifts that are kept for a long time also promote your business for a long time.

It is worth noting that tying the gifts in somehow with what you do will help your customers remember you and your brand. Following are five product types you might like to consider for your top clients.  Although they may not all be ‘eco friendly’ there is a better chance that they will remain in your customers’ possession than a lot of the ‘eco friendly’ gifts on the market.

Organic Clothing:  The promotional gift industry follows trends.  Many of the products that are available for promoting your business were popular on the high street first.  There is a lot of certified organic clothing on the market for promotion.  These garments look trendy which means your customers are much more likely to wear them.  Look around and you will find everything for attractive pullovers to top quality organic cotton jackets.

Promotional Tools:  OK, it will be difficult to find an eco friendly tool but tools are normally kept and used for a long time.  By tools, I mean anything from a high quality screwdriver set to a wine set:  products that are a means to an end.  When purchasing good quality tools, think to yourself, will my customer be using this next year or is it too gimmicky?  Remember, ‘kept’ is good, landfill is bad!

Alternative Energy Products:  These are products that are charged by water, sunlight or a crank of some sort.  Alternative energy products are the in thing right now.  People love to show off a clock that runs on water or an MP4 player that is solar powered.  There are hundreds of such gifts available so have fun finding the best ones. Order early as the most popular are likely to sell out early.

Eco Desktop Products:  Whatever your budget, you should be able to find an eco friendly desk tidy or pen pot.  Again, just because a product is being sold as eco friendly does not mean it won’t find its way to your customer’s bin.  Look for useful products you know they will like and keep.

Promotional Bags:  Jute shopper bags are the bag of the moment.  They are inexpensive and a good eco friendly way of carrying the Christmas groceries.  But did you know there are also a lot of other eco friendly bags on the market that might be more appropriate depending on the business you are in?  There are good quality conference bags, laptop bags, suitcases etc that are manufactured in biodegradable and also organic materials.  Give your customers a quality bag and they will use it regularly.

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One of the biggest problems the growing green movement faces can be found hidden in every baby’s diaper.  Eco friendly diapers are in short supply unlike that which they were intended to collect.  There currently aren’t enough landfills to deal with all the diapers out there.

Babies go through about 5,000 diapers during potty training and the EPA says that diapers account for  3.4 million tons of waste (roughly 2% for the US total) in landfills (1998 figures).  To qualify as eco friendly diapers it will be necessary to bypass the landfills as well as the harmful chemicals.

It may at first seem an easy, green choice to go with cloth diapers rather than disposable, but the diaper solution is not so cut and dried.  To make cloth your eco friendly diaper of choice you will need a few basic items.

First and foremost you will need a washer and dryer at your beck and call and the time to constantly wash the tainted offerings that your baby produces at a near prolific rate.  You will need to chose an eco friendly laundry soap and the style of cloth diaper that best suits your child.

This is by far the most preferable way to deal with the diaper issue, but not the solution for everyone.  City dwellers may look to a diaper service, but eco friendly diapers do not come from most pay services.  Due to excessive hot water use and necessity of chlorine bleach (to kill Staff and other infections common to babies), these services produce less than eco friendly results.

This takes us back to disposable diapers.  Conventional disposables (Pampers, Huggies) are also not eco friendly diapers.  Their manufacture involves chlorine (a volital organic compound VOC) and all use chemical gel cores that “lock in” a baby’s pee.  These chemical gels contain sodium polyacrylate known for respiratory and skin irritation problems (mind you in much higher doses than found in diapers).

These manufacturers would argue that the chemicals used are all within safe limits, but do you really want to swaddle your child in such potential problems?  Disposable, eco friendly diapers do exist, sort of and are are making strides towards even higher standards of green on a daily basis.

A well know manufacturer of many green products, Seventh Generation, makes a disposable eco friendly diaper or so they say.  The truth is a truly biodegradable diaper doesn’t really exist due to the quantity versus the available landfills.

But Seventh Generation is a very transparent company as far as their ingredients go and produces some of the best eco friendly products available.  They also claim that their eco friendly diapers use a “chemically inert”  gel and claim independent scientific research has shown it is “nontoxic, not carcinogenic, and nonirritating to the skin.”

Another company, Gdiapers, makes a similar product with the added advantage of making  their diapers flushable.  The flushable feature does eliminate the landfill problem (some statistics put a diapers landfill life around 500 years), but both of these so called eco friendly diapers use similar gel cores on which there is still not enough definitive research.

The winner, in this reviewers eyes, in the disposable eco friendly diaper contest is made by Tushies.  Assembled in the US, these are made of a cotton blend, chlorine free wood pulp and best of all, no chemical gels.  Not as widely available as the Seventh Generation product, this brand can be found in some health food stores and also online.

The final word on diapers is that “eco friendly diapers” is an still an oxymoron at this point.  Diaper services show facts that gel absorbents in disposables are harmful and disposables claim the chlorine used in diaper services is harmful. There is no definitive proof of either side being right.  The eco friendly diapers of the future will combine all the best features, flushability, no gel absorbents above all comfort and safety for your baby.