These are some of the tips which can help you to make the world little bit more greener.
- Change to Fluorescent Bulbs – If every house in the United States changed all of the light bulbs in their house, that would be equivalent to taking one million cars off the streets.
- Hang Outside to Dry – Get a cloths line or rack to dry your cloths. Your cloths will last longer and you will save money
- Use Both Sides of Paper – if you have a printer with a double sided print option use it. You will save half of the amount of paper you would have normally used.
- Get rid of baths – Do not take baths, take showers. You will in average save about half the amount of water that you would if you were taking a bath.
- Do not get bottled water – Instead of bottled water get a reusable container to carry water. Also you can get a filter to make your home tap taste more like bottled water. It is definitely more cost efficient.
- Shorten your shower – Every minute you cut from your shower is roughly 5 gallons of water. The less time your shower takes, the lower your impact on the environment.
- Recycle Glass – If you do not recycle this, it will take a million years to decompose.
- Turn Down your Thermostat – Every degree lower in the winter or higher in the summer you put it is a 10 percent decrease on your energy bill.
- Turn off your lights – An easy one. Turn off your lights when you are not using them. The benefits are obvious.
- Do not get a paper phone book – Instead of getting a paper phone book. Use a online directory instead.
- Give things away – Take things that you are not going to wear or use and give it to a charity or someone who will use it.
- Go to a car wash – Going to a car wash is a lot more water efficient then washing your car at home.
- Buy Rechargeable Batteries – Even though it will take a good investment to buy these you will find yourself gaining it back in no time.
- Pay your Bills Online – If every house in the US did this then we would save 18 million trees every year.
- Get a reusable bag – You can not recycle plastic bags, instead get yourself a reusable bag so that you will not have to worry about carrying your necessities.
- Inflate your Tires – If your tires are inflated at all times your car will run more miles on less gas.
- Plant a Tree – It is good for the air, can keep you cool, and can increase your property value.
- Walk or Ride Your Bike When you can – If you have to go somewhere close consider riding your bike or walking there instead of your car. It is better on the environment and healthier.
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Let’s put it this way: our family is very green in lifestyles. We recycle and reuse everything we have in the house. The plus, we save about $285/month more by reusing everything as much as we can without throwing out to the garbage. One day, we were thinking about installing solar panels but the panels are way out of our budget. In our research, we found out the is an easy solution of saving electric, just chance the hungry electric burning incandescent bulbs to LED light bulbs. Simple as that, we save another $45 every month.
Going green in the home is one thing but at work it is something much more! Encouraging others to go green in the work place will raise awareness and possibly carry through to their every day lives.
I agree going green with business transactions is a wonderful thing. I would like to see more and more businesses doing this. Would make a big impact on our environment
Great green living tips! Be environmental friendly is so good for all of us!
is there any possabilities to make borders rounded for ie 7, ie8 and opera 10?
cos {-moz-border-radius:5px; – doesn’t work in these browsers
For living Green at the work we must use certain technologies like telepresence. Telepresence saves the emissions in the atmosphere and also our money. The businesses that implement these technologies can slash carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 5.5 million metric tons in total which is equivalent to removing more than one million passenger vehicles from the road for one year.
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good plugins …have chinese version?
What a great post! Going green is important for everyone to take part in.
I made finnish translation but finnish letters ä and ö are not working.
I solved the problem with finnish letters, so forget what I said earlier.
I saw something about a chinese company that is making the basis for solor panels with paint. That means that in a few years time we all hopefully will be able to afford solorpanels and that imho would be a great step towards a better and greener live. What do you think?