GOING GREEN – HOW TO MAKE OUR HOMES MORE ECO-

FRIENDLY?
It is good news that a lot of people around the world are becoming more
environmentally conscious. Being more eco-friendly will not only help you
make a contribution to a sustainable environment but can save you money.
Your home is where you spend a lot of your time, so why not start there?
Install solar panels

Solar power is an ideal Start saving it by breaking

way to reduce your carbon
footprint. It does not
Save water bad habits. Never let faucet
water run excessively when
Although dryers are pretty
convenient, they are horrible for
release any greenhouse washing or rinsing dishes, the environment - they use tons of
washing your hands or hair,

Line dry
gasses and it requires energy and each cycle generates
brushing your teeth or
almost no other energy shaving. Turning off the tap around 1.8kg of CO2. Line drying
except for having a clean when you are doing this can is much more gentle, since clothes
water supply to operate. save hundreds of gallons a are not tossed or tumbled.
month. Additionally, it helps you save
money since it is much cheaper
than buying a clothes dryer and
dryer sheets.
By using up every edible
Save food

bit of your food, you are

doing your bit to look
after the environment.
Reducing the amount of Waste affects the natural
food that ends in the environment tremendously.
garbage also implies that Wherever you live, you can
you can say goodbye to influence what you put into your
Recycle

unnecessary waste from trash and what you don't. There is

packaging. a variety of things you can recycle
which you usually throw away
daily. We can separate these
Turn off the lights

things into categories: paper,

Turning the lights when you do plastic, metal, glass, and other
not use them can reduce your items that you can recycle at local
electricity bills and extend your businesses and not in your
light bulb life. The lights that we garbage.
are not using are the least efficient
and pure heat makes 90% of the
energy they use. That means
turning them off will also help to
Donate furniture

cool a room during summer, which

Capture rainwater

could potentially also affect other Sharing unneeded furniture

Collecting rainwater reduces the with charities can also be
energy costs, such as air
demand on municipal water part of efforts to
conditioning.
supply. It allows the storage of incorporate green living
seasonal rains during off-peak strategies into your
times. It helps in managing the lifestyle. Donating furniture
storm-water runoff, which that you no longer use is
reduces the risk of erosion in undoubtedly an
gardens and around environmentally friendly
downspouts, minimizes the effect alternative to throwing
on local stormwater them away.
Create your own compost

infrastructure and combined

sewer systems, and helps to
While you may not be able to reduce the flood danger.
compost all of the organic waste
you produce, composting will
Get a houseplant

reduce your overall trash

Houseplants can do more
significantly. Applying compost to than just brightening up
your soil makes your garden a your shelves. Adding plants
happier and better place – it to the interior spaces may
increases your soil's organic increase the levels of
matter and helps plants absorb oxygen. Studies have
shown that indoor plants
nutrients, that are already in your
are able to improve
soil and also provides some extra concentration and
nutrients. productivity, reduce stress
levels and boost your
mood.