Make Your Lamp

Don’t want the same generic lamp as everyone else? Make your own lamp lets you breath some individuality into your home while being a greenie too! After eleven years of searching for an ideal material that has unlimited possibilities and creative potential in relation to its weight, strength, accessibility, and its organic sources, plus following [...]

Green Your BBQ

Catherine Zandonella, author of “National Geographic Green Guide Families” shares some tips on “Good Morning America” on how to go green with your grilling and make your barbecue better for your health and the environment. Read more at Just One Thing: ABC News.

The Life Box: solutions for re-greening the planet

If ever you needed extra incentive to recycle the packaging that comes with all your purchases, The Life Box is it. Simply tear up, plant and water, and voila, you’ve planted several trees. (They’d have to be native to your location though, we think). What is The Life Box™? The Life Box™ was invented by [...]

Home-made vertical garden

Building a green home in Singapore

Impossible? No A Challenge? You bet! When I first strted Green Kampong is was because I wanted to share my experiences of building a green home in Singapore.. the site quickly evolved and became so much more and the house too grew from the ground up but not so rapidly. In this new section I [...]

Compost Toilets

On our recent trip to Nepal, I was quite tickled to learn that for the last 30 years ago the monks at the Kopan Monastery have been using human gas for cooking!! YES! and it was not until a little sceptical monk went in to the holding tank and lit a match that they decided [...]

Let there be LED light…

Almost 130 years after being patented by Thomas Edison, the conventional light bulb is heading for the recycling bin. It is being replaced by LED (light emiting diode) lighting which are energy efficient, smaller, faster switching and have longer life spans than normal light bulbs. First invented in Russia in the 1920s, LED lights are [...]