Green Your Home


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There are many ways in which you can green your home and green your life. You don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to green your home, start saving money and helping the environment.

Here are some of the ways:

Green Your Home – General Tips

  • “Paper or plastic? Fabric!” – Shop with recycled fabric bags
  • Use CFL bulbs or LED bulbs that conserve energy (and reduce your electricity bill)
  • Use concentrated detergent formula for laundry (laundry detergent make a whopping  70% of laundry’s carbon emissions)
  • Wash your laundry in warm instead of hot water: this will significantly lower your electricity bill
  • Turn off electronic appliances that are usually in stand by mode when they are not being used (steros and DVD players are a good place to start)
  • Install solar panels so you will have green energy

Green Your Home – The Kitchen Area

  • Make your own worm compost bin in your backyard – this process not only recycles your food waste but also
  • Eat locally grown food – doing so reduces the pollution caused by the transportation needed to get your food from the farm to your plate
  • Recycle the containers that your food and drink come in
  • Decrease use of bottled water
  • Replace your existing windows with high performance insulation windows
  • Green your home when you paint – use green, non-toxic organic paint materials, VOC-free paint

Green Your Home – While Shopping

  • Choose green packaging: environmentally friendly companies now emphasize on green packaging: smaller packages, perishable packages and ones that don’t contain many different packaging materials
  • Buy from companies that offer green products. Even Home Depot & Gap have started to sell green products
  • Buy from green certified companies like Office Depot and Ace Hardware
  • Carbon footprints – Buy from companies that take measures to reduce their carbon footprints

The most important thing to remember is that you can green your home gradually, when it’s convenient to you and while taking your budget into account. Every little change helps and most changes are also very cost effective.

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