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12 Green Living Tips for the Whole House

January 2, 2009 in Green Your Home by Jennifer | No comments

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…

  1. 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.
  2. Green clean the air in your home.
  3. Make it a goal to use cloth everything – cleaning cloths, napkins, and if you’re up for it, cloth diapers.
  4. Go one step further with the above tip and purchase only organic textiles.
  5. If all cloth is too big a step, purchase recycled, unbleached paper products.
  6. Use LED lighting where you can and install energy saving bulbs in other light fixtures.
  7. Reuse items in your home instead of tossing them.
  8. Buy sustainable furniture when you can.
  9. Scale down and buy and own less stuff; which might even free you up to live in a smaller house.
  10. When remodeling, remodel green.
  11. Paint your rooms with earth-friendly paints.
  12. Turn all the thermostats in the house down a few degrees.

What other green tips can you think of that benefit your entire house?

Going Green? How to Cover the Basics….

November 17, 2008 in Green Your Home by Jennifer | No comments

Get motivated. Look to eco blogs like this, green living books, or even your TV for green shows to get inspired. When you surround yourself with green, it makes going green a snap.

Own your actions. Yeah, some folks don’t believe in global warming. Whatever, that’s your choice. However, some use theories like this to avoid green, as in why bother, we’re not the ones making the problem. Even if you don’t believe in global warming, your actions are important for other reasons. Clean beaches and forests, green spaces for kids to play, and your health. Believe what you like, but green actions are for us all.

Invest in green companies and products.

Naturally clean your space – cleaning products are one area that anyone can green up in no time flat. Why buy toxic chemicals when you don’t have to?

Green all of your special events, vacations, and holidays, along with your everyday world.

Get a child involved. Kids are going to be around longer than we adult are. Think about the green ethics and values you’re passing on to them. Have you even talked to a child lately about going green? You should.

Reduce your consumption of consumer goods. Think before you buy, each and every time.

Eat organic, vegetarian, or natural. Grow your own food if you can. Do something with your food that helps to lower your footprint.

Eco up your energy use. It’s hard to know how much energy you use without running some easy energy audits. Anyone can do this, and it’ll green your home plus save you money.

Never assume that one action won’t make a difference. That cloth napking you use at each meal, that one can you recycle, the one organic product you purchase – these steps all matter.

Make Your House A Reusable House

October 8, 2008 in Green Cleaning, Green Your Home, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle by Jennifer | No comments

You can apply green building features to your house. You can invest in eco-friendly furniture. You can even landscape with the environment in mind. However, one of the best ways to go green at home, is to make your house as reusable as possible.

First of all make sure that you’re only bringing goods into your house that you really need. Purchased goods take energy to manufacture, and most come with too much packaging. When you do purchase goods, make sure that they’re both recyclable, and if possible reusable. Look for items that can perform more than one duty. For example, no one needs a food processor, a blender, and a food grinder. One of the above will do the work of all three.

Items that can make your home reusable:
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