Ecocentral - Everyday Life

Ecocentral - Everyday Life


This section contains easy, interesting articles to help you become more eco-friendly in every aspect of your life. Well researched and honest, they contain a wealth of pragmatic advice and information about everything from salad to solar panels, lipstick to lime mortar.

As these articles are about the real world, they generally contain the cost associated with going green as well as the amount of money it will save you. Hopefully, this will help you do what’s best for your budget.

If you would like us to publish an article on any subject within Everyday Life, please send it as an e-mail attachment to articles@ecoboom.co.uk, with pdf, word or plain text documents all being perfectly acceptable. We will fully accredit published articles and link to the authors. Thanks.

Categories in... Everyday Life

  • You & Yours

    Everyday most of us douse ourselves in chemicals, wear industrially manufactured clothes, use huge amounts of energy, fill our bodies with processed food and create mountains of waste. And most parent...

  • House & Home

    Running a household can take quite a bit of doing: cooking, cleaning, washing, heating and lighting can all take their toll. Unfortunately, these can all have a bad impact on the environment as well...

  • Garden & Wildlife

    This section deals with eco-friendly options for the garden and the great outdoors close to home. It is mainly about how to get the best out of your garden, improve the wildlife entering it and do y...

  • Leisure & Hobbies

    This section includes leisure pursuits, hobbies, interests and the like. It is abridged and incomplete, probably highly biased and certainly not exhaustive.  I have not, for instance, discussed...

  • Transport, Travel & Tourism

    Transport and travel accounts for a large proportion of most people’s carbon footprint, so it is an important aspect of your life to consider. I found that over half my footprint came from tra...

  • DIY & Construction

    Almost 50% of UK carbon dioxide emissions come from buildings and around 10% come from the manufacture, transportation and erection of building materials. The construction industry produces around 1...

  • Services

    This section will help you find eco-friendly people to extend or improve your house, invest your money, offset your carbon sins and supply you with electricity. They are bound to be many more than...

  • Office, Commercial & Industrial

    There is a vast amount of information, discussion and advice to give small and medium sized companies about environmental issues. Unfortunately, this is going to take a while to get together properl...

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