Unfortunately, it turned out that our society wasn’t ready for such an innovatory approach. The recycling machines were vandalized, so Tesco had to refuse accepting paper and cardboard.

So, each socket of the Energenie standby shutdown will save you on average 87.6kWh of electricity. With the average retail price of electricity standing at 10p, it comes to £26.28 saved.

It lists 21 things that you should avoid buying new. So what’s on the hotlist? Cars, furniture, decor items, tools. Sounds like a great list.

Switching to recycled paper towels could also save America almost 2 billion litres of clean water, 1.4 million trees and 3.7 million cu-ft of landfill space.

For your chance to grab seven free energy saving light bulbs, please enter the competition. The claims that one energy saving light bulb can save you up to £7 per year are true.

From the investor point of view, it’s probably the best moment to start investing in renewable energy. The source of solar energy is free, and for the time being its supplies are unlimited. If any company now announced retail sales of a 40% efficient solar cell, its share value would go through the roof.

Feed-in tariff means that an average household with a 4kWh solar panel on the roof is looking to a £1500+ annual gain not counting the bill savings you make.

Look how he’s constructed this abstract painting using adhesive tapes of different width. The same idea can be applied to an interior design project.

Did you know that it takes 18 mature trees to produce one metric ton of paper? 7.2 billion trees is around 100,000 square kilometres – or the whole area of Kentucky, or a country like Hungary.

It rarely gets better than this. Look what I found on Flickr. A very unusual Canadian home made of wood. Forget about those awful plastic sidings, this is how Canada used to be and there are still many gems left there. This project just shows that a wooden house is not necessarily boring. This is actually lots of fun.

Dry stone walling is one of those old traditional skills that are thought to be slowly dying. As the majority of the traditional building methods are more or less sustainable, we don’t really want them to die. Besides, it is great to keep an old lore alive and pass it on to younger generations.

Do you have mould on your walls or ceiling? It is actually more dangerous than you may think. Mould is caused by microscopic fungi that develop colonies on damp surfaces. So, how to fight mould when it’s already occurred?