Wednesday 27 December 2017

365 ways to help you save the planet


If you are looking to take some steps towards living in a more green and sustainable way let me help you with enough ideas to fill a year!  Based on my series of Weekly Green Tips I have now combined all the weekly tips I gave into one post giving you a new idea for every day of the year .... 365 ways to help you save the planet.  I appreciate you may already do some or others are either irrelevant to you or maybe impossible to tackle right now - but hopefully there are plenty here you can action.  And imagine what a difference we could make to the world if we all took up these tips.

To make it easier for you to find them I have linked to all of them below in 7 main groups.  And of you are wondering why there are not 52 I did a few super blogs of 14 and even 21 tips to cover when I had time away from blogging! Oh and the last one had a list of nine as try as I may I couldn't lose 2!!

365 WAYS TO HELP YOU SAVE THE PLANET




A years worth of planet saving tips


Theme - REDUCE


Disposables to go - 7 throw away products you do not need to buy
Saving water - 7 ways to save water around the house
Don't buy - 7 products you really should NOT be buying
Christmas Waste - 7 ways to reduce waste over the festive season

Theme - GARDENING and WILDLIFE


Get Growing - 7 useful tips for new gardeners
Veg for everyone - 7 places you can grow veg even without a vegetable plit
Helping bees - 7 ways to attract bees to our garden
Helping Beneficial Bugs - 7 ways to get good bugs in your garden
July veg - 7 vegetables you can sow as late as July
Water Wise Watering - 7 tips to use less water in the garden
Organic Gardening - 7 tips to turn organic in the garden
Helping the birds - 7 tips to attract birds to your garden
Bird Friendly plants - 7 plants that birds love
Home-made plant labels - 7 plant labels you cna make yourself
Green Lawns - 7 ways to grow a greener lawn
Storing the Harvest - 7 ways to store your home grown produce

Theme - FAMILY and LEISURE


Green Holidays - 7 ways you can still be green when on holiday
Green Hobbies - 7 ways to keep your leisure time green
Get outside in Winter - 7 ways to tempt you outside in the middle of winter
Foraging - 7 fantastic foods to forage for
Avoid All inclusive holidays - 7 reasons you should not go all inclusive
Green Holiday Ideas - 7 type of holiday that are great for the planet
Green Baby - 7 tips to bring up a green baby
Green Pets - 7 ways to keep your pets green
Back to School - 7 tips to help keep school bags etc green
Halloween - 7 spookily green Halloween ideas
Christmas Presents - 7 festive present giving ideas
Easter - 7 tips to help keep the Easter Bunny green

Theme - FOOD


Bread - 7 ways to use up old bread
Fish - 7 sustainable fish you can eat
Avoiding Supermarkets - 7 other places where you can food shop
Cooking - 21 ways to cook efficiently
Christmas Food - 7 foods that are in season at Christmas (UK and northern France)
Avoiding Palm Oil - 7 ways to not consume palm oil
Cooking from Scratch Part 1 - 7 tips on how to cook great food from scratch
Cooking from Scratch Part 2 - 7 more tips on how to cook great food from scratch

Theme - HOME and WORK


Green Renovations - 7 ways to keep your DIY green
Dealing with Clutter - 7 ways to keep clutter out of landfill
Newspapers - 7 uses for old newspapers
Heating - 21 ways to heat your home (and work) using less energy
Old Clothes - 7 tips for keeping old clothes out of landfill
Paper - 7 ways to reduce paper use
Buying Tropical products - 7 tips to buy tropical products sustainably

Theme - TRANSPORT


Greening your car - 7 tips to keep your car as green as possible
Driving Tips - 7 ways to drive efficiently

Theme - MISC


Quotes - 7 green quotes to live our lives by
7 Random green things we should all do this week
The 9 Rs - 9 words we should think about in everything we do

Have you got any more great ideas we can take on board to help save the planet?



7 comments :

  1. I feel there are far too many lazy people around, doing simple things to save the planet is too much work for them which is sad in my opinion

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  2. Absolutely love this post. I'll be referring back to this lots. As you know, I have similar values to yours 💚

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  3. Love this post. I'm currently researching how to start a wormery for composting kitchen waste now we no longer have pigs.

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  4. This is such a detailed list of ideas and helpful suggestions. Thank you so much,I especially like the ideas for not wasting bread. (I was certainly guilty of this before)

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  5. Some great ideas here! Even if you a handful - you've already done some good.

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  6. There are some really good ideas that everyone can do, here. Thanks for sharing. I love all the resources you share!
    #goinggreen

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