Free Tips To Environmental Lawn

Free Tips to Have An Environmently Happy Lawn!

Did you know that your lawns helps cool our environment?

They do because like plants, lawns consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

To help the environment and have a healthy lawn follow the following tips:

 

• Plant drought tolerant grasses plus have the added bonus of saving water! Couch and buffalo grass are an excellent choice. Interesting fact: The average size lawn offers the same cooling as 2.5 air conditioners (greenacreslawn.com.au/environment)
• Lift the mower blades up a notch or two. Instead of cutting your lawn down to bare millimeters, just mow the top third or so off. Use your lawn clippings to mulch your garden beds.
• Water restrictions do make this easier and most people are already doing this, so water your lawn longer say once a week in the morning or afternoon, instead of using the old hand held spray on the hose doing a light sprinkle!
• Another idea to help your lawn and abide by water restrictions is to use a water wetting agent easily purchased at hardware stores or nurseries.
• Use a slow release fertilisers to maintain a healthy lawn.

Uses for cask bladders

Re-using boxed water and wine cask bladders….

Most of us know that bottled water is evil when it comes to the environment and its far better to use a household filtration system in conjunction with refillable water bottles in order to quench our thirsts on the go.

But if you do have to buy packaged water for whatever reason, water casks can be a little more environmentally friendly than bottled water.

However, while the cardboard box it comes in can certainly be recycled; what about that plastic encased foil bladder/bag within? The same challenge applies to cask/boxed wine bladders; also known as "bag in a box" wines.

As far as I know, the bladders are often made from metalized Biaxially-Oriented PolyEthylene Terephthalate (boPET) and cannot be recycled, so millions of these bags wind up in land fill each year.

Here’s some ideas for keeping bag-in-a-box and cask water bladders out of the waste stream or perhaps using them to replace another product you may buy and discard

- Partially inflated, bladders can make for excellent packing material and padding

- Partially fill with water, fold and freeze to use as a freezer brick. For a better brick, use salty water.

- Sewn or heat sealed together, bladders can become a thermal cover for reflecting heat

- I’ve seen some people use inflated bladders attached by string to a stake to act as a bird scarer in veggie patches

- Cut off the length of the bag on the spigot end, cut a hole in each layer for a handle and use as a carry bag or for storing items

- As above, but glue a layer of bubble wrap to the inside of the bag to use as a cooler bag.

- Can be used as a kitchen tidy rubbish bag

- An inflated bladder can make for a handy camping pillow

- Depending on the spigot, it can be removed and the bladder refilled with other liquids or water.

There has to be a ton of other uses for these bladders - Article by:

Michael Bloch
Green Living Tips.com
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Kids and the Environment- Worm Farms

Worm Farming for Kids - Safe, Natural, and Helps The Environment!

Helping our children to learn easy ways to help the environment.

Q. How do we explain to children, what the "environment" is?

A. Everything in the world around us that affects all life on earth. Like the air, food chains, the water, plants, animals and other humans. So it is really important that we help care for our environment as much as possible.  Save water, clean your teeth with a cup of water, wash your dog or bike with a bucket, use less power,  turn the lights off, mum and dad can purchase Power Saver units and the whole family can make less rubbish.

Kids will have mountains of fun making less rubbish, with a worm farm!

Your very own miniature farm, that will personally benefit your kitchen wastes and your garden Children gain the benefit of a fun learning experience through natural science.

How to build a worm farm….

 

Where to buy worms and worm farms.

Online at:

Wormsdownunder   or   Kookaburrawormfarms

Down at the shops:

Kmart   Bunnings  Mitre 10