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Top 10 Green updates to your home
A green home is one that is organic and in harmony with the environment. You can help the environment, making your home greener. Here is how you can do so by adopting a more energy efficient and earth-friendly lifestyle.
Read the following 10 ways to green your home.
1. Upgrade to greener equipment. Make your home energy efficient by improving equipment greener. Replace old appliances with energy-efficient models that are ENERGY STAR to reduce your energy bill. According to the Energy Star site, the use of energy efficient appliances, only one in 10 households is equal to planting 1.7 million hectares of new trees.
2. Control temperature. Over 50% of the energy of a house bill is for heating and cooling equipment. Moderate the thermostat according to time goes a long way in reducing energy consumption. Other energy saving methods include the use of a modern oven, cleaning your air filter every month, and the use of fans ceiling instead of air conditioning.
3. Water conservation. There are hundreds of ways to save water and reduce energy consumption. Some include assembly with aerators of taps and the installation of water efficient low flow toilets.
4. Clean with green products. Buy green cleaning products that are natural, nontoxic rather than toxic chemicals. Carpets and window cleaners containing alcohol or grain alcohol, detergents or coconut oils, etc. are bio-friendly.
5. Efficient Lighting. Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent (CFL). CFL bulbs use 66% less energy and last 10 times longer.
6. Use recycled paper. Every time you buy paper, obtain 100% recycled paper. These use less virgin pulp and prevent paper waste from landfills. Also can save more trees by opting out of spam lists. Use unbleached paper is more environmentally friendly, as the results of the bleaching process paper on the creation of harmful by-products. Also, refrain from paper and plastic bags and cloth bags to carry their own shopping.
7. Bamboo flooring. Bamboo floors are more environmentally friendly than wood floors. Bamboo matures in four to six years, while it takes 50 to 100 years for typical hardwoods.
8. Shun plastic. Plastics are not biodegradable. That produce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming when processed, burned or thrown into landfills. The best way is to avoid plastics, the next best thing is the reuse and recycling.
9. Eco-paint. Using environmentally paintings sure they are free from organic solvents to paint his house.
10. Green your garden. Avoid synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides. Instead use organic fertilizers such as compost and chemical methods of pest control.
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