Going Green
If you want to "go green" but aren't sure how, just take one step, or a few small steps each month. It doesn't have to be overwhelming. For example, each week when I go to the store, I buy a flourescent bulb. This week I found a great deal at Walgreens for a pack of 4, so I got those. We'll install them this week. I'm interested to see how it affects our energy consumption.
Some other steps you can take are:
- separate your trash, and recycle paper, plastic, glass and metals (we started out with plastic grocery bags hung on nails in the back porch)
- composting your fruit and veggie scraps (we keep a small bucket in the kitchen)
- wash clothes in cold water more often
- hang clothes and blankets to dry as often as you can (in winter it can really help moisturize dry air in your house
- use re-usable bags for shopping
- wash and re-use plastic bags. Why throw away a perfectly good bag?
- use cloth rags in place of paper towels (I was amazed at how this reduced our trash!)
- use cloth napkins in place of paper napkins (I got ours at a great price at a discount store)
- use cloth diapers or cloth feminine products in place of disposables
- grow a garden - start small if you aren't sure if you'll like it. You can grow lots of veggies in containers. Can or freeze what you can't eat.
- turn off unneeded lights and unplug items that pull electricity all the time, but aren't necessary, such as stereos, computers, and televisions. How many clocks do we need blinking at us, anway?
- replace your incandescant bulbs with CFL's to reduce energy consumption. I don't care for the "blue" looking ones, but I was fortunate enough to find them in "soft white" which I love and can't tell from incandescant.
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