IT departments are under increasing scrutiny and pressure to deliver environmentally-sound solutions. Large data centres are one of the most significant energy consumers in an organisation’s IT infrastructure, so any measures that you can take to reduce this consumption (and therefore also carbon dioxide emissions) will have a positive impact on your organisation’s environmental footprint.

The [...]

I have written before about the green aspects of terrazzo floors. Today I am going to expand on this critically important topic. In all aspects of home maintenance, repair and design we must all be thinking green. Terrazzo floors, when restored by Colonial Floor Care’s no toxic chemicals method, are an important part of your [...]

The colors we use in our home reflect our individual personalities. Colors affect our everyday lives, and even if you’re color blind, the ambiance created by the colors around you can influence mood, productivity, health, and happiness. Many researchers have even assigned personality traits to each color, or to the people who chose them as [...]

Designing websites involves plenty skilled disciplines from type to layout & colour. Colour is particularly significant because it gives the first impression to the user. the correct colours can create a nice experience for the user, whereas inappropriate colours can have a negative impact.

To make a good website, the designer should know what affect colours [...]

By David Leonhardt and Corey Rozon

The environment is in the media daily, from the Kyoto Protocol, Global Warming to the icecaps melting. If things don’t change soon, the future looks bleak, if you listen to the experts.

What no one seems to be discussing is the advancements in the construction and industrial sectors, namely the [...]

Many people saw An Inconvenient Truth, a movie made famous by former vice president Al Gore. But the real question is what have you done since you saw this movie or others like it? Recently a documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio titled “The 11th Hour” made an impact on one of the owners of Simply [...]

“Is my label recyclable?”  In my thirteen plus years of producing quality labels to the food, natural products and personal care industries I’ve never heard a single question asked as often as this one in the last six months!  But before you accept the answer from an uninformed label printer and choose a different decoration [...]

Green home designs use eco-friendly reusable materials, furnishings and leftovers. These kind of designs feature the use of long lasting, non-toxic materials as well as recycling. Green home designs make use of materials that are renewable and long lasting. To remodel a residence with new materials every few years is not green building design.

When you [...]