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Blog Action Day: Fight Climate Change “twogether”
This year’s Blog Action Day is focused on climate change and blogs around the world are contributing their own view on climate change and what could be done to prevent it.
As a blog on love, relationships and matchmaking, we would like to look at the effects of people living as singles vs. living in a relationship on climate change. Living “twogether” in a relationship is far more eco-friendly than living alone, so any couple living together – even without much of a green attitude – is doing more to fight climate change than a single person with the greenest intentions.
Here’s how couples contribute to the fight against climate change:
- A shared home is more environmentally friendly than individual households. A couple requires less space than two singles, which means less building, less land claimed for residential development, less CO2 emissions from construction work.
- Couples can save on heating, as they share a living space that only needs to be heated once. Also, don’t overrate the effect of body heat when you cuddle up in bed
Who needs an electric blanket, when they have the one they love to keep them warm at night? Read more
Ready for Marriage? A Retro-Quiz for Women
You want to get married? But are you even ready for marriage? In the 70s that question was a topic for comics aimed at young girls. One such comic published a quiz, to help young women find out if they’re ready for marriage. thatsmyskull found it, one Jezebel answered all the questions to see if SHE was ready for marriage. If you answer every question with “Yes”, you’re ready to say “Yes”. The questions fall into 3 categories:
1. Some questions are pretty sensible – even if you don’t answer “Yes” to all of them, it’s probably a good idea to think about some issues like finances and commitment, before you take a vow that will change your life.
2. Some of the other questions aren’t exactly bad, but today you should probably answer them the exact other way around if you’re ready for marriage!
3. Some questions feel like they came straight from the dark ages and make the questionnaire feel more like an employment form for housekeepers.
Whatever you answer – some questions will give you pause for thought, some will make you laugh out loud and in the end it’s still up to you to decide whether you’re ready for marriage! After the jump is the scanned quiz. Read more
Environmentally Friendly Weddings: 12 Tips for a Green Wedding
Environmentally friendly blog treehugger writes about all aspects of green living. This post about non-green weddings got us thinking: What would an environmentally friendly wedding look like?
These are the top tips for a green wedding:
- An environmentally friendly wedding begins with environmentally friendly wedding invites: Print your invitations on recycled paper or, even better, hand-write them. Don’t worry; recycled paper needn’t look horrible – these days it comes in any design or colour you could ask for.
- Bonus green points for handing the invitations to friends personally. That doesn’t just save you postage, but also the carbon caused by mail.
- When looking for the perfect wedding location, remember: a green wedding means minimum travel for a maximum of your guests. Read more
Dream Weddings and Dream Dates
The day of your wedding is supposed to be the best day of your life. Everything has to be perfect for the dream wedding and many couples want the date to be perfect, too.
Why is the wedding date so important? And which dates are particularly popular? Read more
Still Single? That’s not very Environmentally Friendly!!
Are you still single? Your single lifestyle doesn’t just affect you, your friends (and your parents, who finally want grandchildren,) it also affects the environment!
A study has shown that millions of still single Britons are preventing Britain from reaching its environmental goals, because their single lifestyle is so wasteful.
Although environmentally concious living is widespread, you only need to look at single lifestyles in cities to realise that these one-person households use a lot of energy and produce loads of rubbish.
One more good reason to look for someone to share your life with if you’re still single in the city!
