Low Impact

Dispensers like this can reduce the amount of waste from hotels

We recently came back from a short holiday away. The holiday was short, but the distance was long - around 1200 kilometres each way! We drove the Prius, and as you can see from the sidebar tracking my progress against my New Years Resolutions, its made quite a dent in my “allowance” of 10,000km!

We travelled in stages, stopping off for a night along the way. In one of the hotels we stayed at, I noticed the dispensers… Continue reading

Old carpet - how best to reuse it?

So, we’ve had our sustainably harvested, dust free bamboo flooring laid down…but what to do with the old carpet? How on earth do you re-use 90 square metres of carpet?

Given that our main aim with our renovations is to have an environmentally friendly and sustainable home, starting off by dumping 90 square metres of carpet into landfill just felt wrong! A search on the net yielded a few ideas, and asking around gave a few more. Continue reading

Green Resolutions for 2009

Normally, I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. I figure that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing now - why wait till some arbitrary date like January 1?

Still, there are a few things that I plan to accomplish over the next 365 days to help lower my impact on the environment, and 1/1/2009 is a good a day as any to start! … Continue reading