Things We Do At Home To Be Green – Part 1
Posted: January 16th, 2010 | Author: terry | Filed under: Green Home | 1 Comment »
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There are a number of things that we can be doing at our homes to help the environment. We have been doing a lot of these for many years and just take it for granted that everyone else does the same.
1. Wash with Cold Water – We have used cold water for more than 20 years to wash our clothes. It means that our clothes are not brilliantly white but we decided that was something with which we could live.
2. Recycle anything that we can – bottles, cans, newspaper, boxes, food waste, etc. One of the things that annoys us is not being able to recycle Styrofoam.
3. Use a fireplace to heat and have the Furnace Thermostat in the same room as the Fireplace. This keeps the furnace use down to ab absolute minimum.
4. Last year we had to place our furnace and we put in a very highly efficient new furnace. The old furnace was recycle for parts and its metal.
Tell us what things you have been doing to make your living more green.
Click here to read more about water conservation.
I use the sunlight from the south-facing windows to heat most of the house for several hours on sunny days. Even on sub-zero January days like today – it’s -12 degrees C (5 degrees F) outside right now, yet two of the four thermostats are showing no activity whatsoever.