Things We Do At Home To Be Green – Part 2

Canada to Ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012

This is a continuation of the things that we have been doing and continue to do at our home/office to help the environment. These things are our small addition to the effort that we all need to take on if we are going to leave a livable planet for our grandchildren.

5. We have been using and continue to use ‘green’ cleaners including laundry soap, dishwashing soap, bathroom and toilet cleaner, floorwashing cleaner, etc. We have discovered that Vinegar is a great anti-bacterial cleaner instead of clorine bleach. We also use an orange peel cleaner as a great cleaner that will eliminate any strong odors – great for cat urine/puke, etc.

6. Turn off any un-used lights, TV’s, radios, PC Monitors, etc.

7. Replaced all of our convention light bulbs with twisted energy saving bulbs – saving at least 50% of the energy needed to light our home.

8. Reduce the number of plastic bags that we use but any we do use are re-used at  least twice but in many cases they are re-used more times before they are discarded. Included in this was being involved in a re-cycling process with a neighboring farm where we eliminated any new bags they needed to buy for their market and re-use the plastic bags all around their farm.

You can see even better solutions for the plastic bags issue in previous blog entries.

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