Some green living tips are fairly room specific. Other green living tips, once enacted benefit your entire household. Some all-over green home tips include…
- Use plant-based, natural, organic, and biodegradable soaps, detergents, and cleaners. You can make your own products, or look for these aspects on green cleaner labels.
- Green clean the air in your home.
- Make it a goal to use cloth everything – cleaning cloths, napkins, and if you’re up for it, cloth diapers.
- Go one step further with the above tip and purchase only organic textiles.
- If all cloth is too big a step, purchase recycled, unbleached paper products.
- Use LED lighting where you can and install energy saving bulbs in other light fixtures.
- Reuse items in your home instead of tossing them.
- Buy sustainable furniture when you can.
- Scale down and buy and own less stuff; which might even free you up to live in a smaller house.
- When remodeling, remodel green.
- Paint your rooms with earth-friendly paints.
- Turn all the thermostats in the house down a few degrees.
What other green tips can you think of that benefit your entire house?