Follow our guide on how to live your life more sustainably and lessen your impact on the environment.
Water Tanks
Waterwise Tips
Water is scarce and if you can find a way to collect and store it, you’ll reduce your municipal water consumption, save buckets of cash, and have fresh water for the garden.
Making lifetime purchases
The term ‘lifetime warranty’ often received flak from consumers, mainly for the nuanced language of the word ‘lifetime’. Multiple brands are bringing back the idea of a lifetime purchase. Retailers have rethought products so they can grow with the consumer and, in turn, last forever. For example a baby crib that converts as the child grows.
Water Tanks
The Go Water Purifier
Filtering your water provides you with cleaner, healthier water right from the tap in your own home. Filters harmful impurities and adds essential minerals.
Jugs and Water bottles
Clensui Jug Water Filters
Jugs and water bottles with filters are ideal to have at home, your office and are especially handy when travelling or camping. It allows you to have clean and healthy water wherever you go.
Reconsider the price of daily items
As the ‘buy it for life’ movement picks up steam, retailers, manufactures and consumers need to reconsider the price if everyday things. If the collective market has grown accustomed to a cycle of purchasing a coffeemaker for R1000 for example, only to throw it away a few years later and purchase another R1000 coffeemaker. The expectation around products’ lifecycles needs to change. Products should be beautiful, long-lasting and in-turn sustainable. Elevating an object, be it a broom, a coffeemaker or a bin, to the point where it is no longer a ‘throwaway’ piece. This could keep said objects out of landfills.
Solar security lights
Make your garden centre stage
Solar-powered floodlights are a great option as they will keep your yard well lit and safe, even if there is a power failure.
Rechargeable lights
Save energy in your home
Rechargeable lights are sometimes ideal and convenient because you can move them around according to your needs and mood.
Gift-free Holidays
Many consumers have embraced ‘no-gift holidays’. In addition to resisting consumerism and avoiding harming the environment, they want to spend less money on things. Many people feel pressured to overspend during holidays and often don’t enjoy the gifts they receive. People become surrounded by stuff and don’t want to accumulate more. Families trying out the no-gift tradition are spending more money on family time like family vacations or activities. People are moving towards opting for non-material things like home-cooked meals, music lessons and donations to charity.
Generators
2-Stroke and 4-Stroke to Suit Your Needs
Emergency back-up power really comes in handy when the electricity supply to your home goes out.
Inverters
How to Choose Your Aircon
A power inverter, or inverter, is a power electronic device or circuitry that changes direct current to alternating current.
Productive Pets
With a surplus of land, many residents supplement their income with products made by their animals, like eggs, honey and milk for example. There is no data on the number of backyard chickens but chickens are quickly becoming pets in the same way that dogs and cats have been for generations. Many areas sell hen harnesses, chicken coops and chicken feed. Many homeowners are also learning how to keep bees as the beekeeping trade grows.
Gas Stoves
Make Your Kitchen More Eco-Friendly
A gas stove is clean and efficient, and one of the simplest sources of alternative energy.
Timers and Sensors
Install Your Own Alarm
Door and window sensors detect intruders before they enter the house, which makes them a particularly effective deterrent. Passive sensors come in a variety of types, the most common being Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors, which measure body heat. Others include motion detectors.
Foolproof Preserving
There is no better way to use the fruits and vegetables of a kitchen garden than canning and preserving. Food preservation techniques go well beyond canning and includes pickling and fermenting, something South Africans have been doing for generations. This requires jars, funnels, water, bath canners, rings and lids are all important in any kitchen. These items will also make good housewarming and holiday gifts. Homemade condiments can be spruced up with handmade or store-bought labels.
Smart Home
Yale Smart Home System
The Yale smart home hub is made up of several wireless accessories that connect wirelessly. The Yale app allows you to control the system remotely.
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