Hi, welcome to Nigel’s Eco Store eco blog. Running Nigel’s Eco Store is an amazing opportunity to explore all things environmentally friendly. Find out more about our business, new products we come across, and the environmental issues I think about. I will be writing fairly regularly on all sorts of environmentally friendly (and other) topics. Please add a comment if you feel the urge - all feedback welcome!

We’re all talking about saving energy these days, and it’s getting easier and easier to start generating your own electricity in your own home. We asked Chris from moneysupermarket.com for a bit more information on what you can do to go green.

Calling all energy saving heroes: if you are the proud owner of Britain’s greenest home, you could be in the running for a tidy £3000 (first prize) or £1000 (second prize) - a very nice addition to the money you’ve already saved from all of your energy saving initiatives!

I’m not a Christian, but I’m using the period of Lent as a way to be even more mindful of my energy consumption, and to think of ways to reduce it further - I’m putting myself on a carbon fast.

Peter Ingledew is the inventor of the two great energy savers, the legendary Eco Kettle which stops you from wasting energy by boiling too much water, and the Showerdrop, which stops you from spending hours in the shower and wasting lots of hot water (and cutting down queues for the bathroom). We caught up with Peter to talk about why attitudes are changing towards energy saving, and what motivates him to keep going.

Is it possible to live an eco-friendly life when you are sharing a flat with other people? We get some top tips from Jonathan at Easyroommate - it’s all about communication!

Eco design wizard Max McMurdo is a master of reuse, turning scrap and junk into beautiful items for the home like Silvana, the washing machine drum coffee table. He’s also the brains behind some pretty useful, and attractive, solutions to every day problems such as keeping on top of the recycling at home.

I caught up with Richard Mansfield-Clark, founder of the Rustic Mushroom Company, for a chat about the grow-your-own revolution, tasty ways to cook exotic mushrooms, and he gave me some useful advice about foraging for wild mushrooms.

Hi, I’m Lauren, and I’m the editor at price comparison site uSwitch.com. Over the next three weeks I’m going to be a guest blogger here at Nigel’s Eco Store….In my last guest blog post, I’m taking a quick look at the Feed-In Tariff scheme which is a relatively new government initiative which means that you can get paid for generating your own renewable energy….

Hi, I’m Lauren, and I’m the editor at price comparison site uSwitch.com. Over the next three weeks I’m going to be a guest blogger here at Nigel’s Eco Store….In this, my second guest blog post for Nigel’s Eco Store, I’m taking a look at just how “green” green energy plans really are.

Hi, I’m Lauren, and I’m the editor at price comparison site uSwitch.com. Over the next three weeks I’m going to be a guest blogger here at Nigel’s Eco Store….Today, I’m talking about choosing the right green energy tariff.