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How can being ‘green’ save me money?
How can we save income as well as be eco friendly?
Any good tips or websites?
By: renaissance
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If each one of us, changes to energy efficient light bulbs, recycles, turn the thermostat down. It will cost us all less money, and the planet as we know it will reduce global warming and last longer. Thank you.
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LikeDislikeLet’s say that you were green. In order to achieve greenness one must have cells containing chloroplasts. Chloroplasts, using light from the sun, creates sucrose. Thus, making one food sufficient. By creating ones own food, one does not need to purchase groceries from the local market or farmer’s market. Therefore, one saves very hard earned money by being green.
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LikeDislikeIsn’t that what it is all about ” money ” who really cares what happens to the eco system, greed will do man in eventually.
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LikeDislikefirst of all u should work on eco friendly systems. The more u get closer 2 u r target u will learn how 2 save money and get better out put.
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LikeDislikeBuild as many things out of wood that you can. You are ‘storing’ carbon as lumber thus taking the carbon out of circulation and the atmosphere. That will also encourage the planting of more trees which will take more carbon out of the air. You will do your part in preventing those trees from dying out in the woods and falling and rotting and decomposing and releasing all that carbon back into the air. You ought to be eligible for ‘carbon credits’ (money) also.
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LikeDisliketo start with, you need to define your terms, by being green, you are talking about living comfortably, using less fuels, producing less polution and so forth.
you home, your home is the largest consumption of your energy in heating, cooling and such. use energy effient systems, takes less to do more, thus less polution
insulate the walls, get air tight windows (remember to open them so you don’t get sick house syndrome) and weather strip the doors or replace the doors to retard the flow of energy through it. Insulate the roof, and add vents to cool the roof in the summer so that the heat does not transfer into your living areas.
next, how green are you willing to go. ? You can harvest heat from gas water heaters, if you want, you can go with electrical grids and wind generators, but your area might not support any of that.
altenergy.com is a good place to start. You should figure you will spend about 30,000 for a solar panel system, batteries, and the workmen to install it. it should pay for itself in 15 to 25 years depending on your usage and power cost increases.
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LikeDislikeAn important part of living green and being eco friendly is reducing waste ~ this means buying less, doing with less, and making the most of what you already have. Coincidentally, this can save you money as well
Some ideas:
Instead of buying brand new clothes ~ just keep wearing the ones you’ve got, or buy second hand clothes.
Make an effort to buy locally grown produce and cook more from scratch. This reduces waste, transportation costs, and eliminates commercial processing.
Line dry instead of running your clothes through a tumble dryer ~ this saves electricity and extends the life of your clothes, while saving money.
Borrow books and DVDs from the library instead of buying brand new.
Make crafts from items found around the house or recycling bin instead of buying pre-fab craft kits.
Walk or ride your bike, or even the city bus whenever possible. Get in the habit of leaving your car garaged on the weekends.
Garden organically and leave the chemicals on the shelf in the store. Grow your own herbs if you have the space ~ plant an entire veggie garden if you’ve got an area large enough.
Plant trees at the southwest corner of your house to cool down the house, provide shade, reduce evaporation and lower your lawn watering and air conditioning costs.
When your existing appliances finally wear out ~ replace them with energy Star models.
Here’s a link to my blog with lots of other tips for how things can be reused and recycled.
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LikeDislikeA green home and lifestyle reduces your carbon footprint and it greatly reduces your use of and dependence upon fossil fuels. This means lower fuel costs and lower utility bills!
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LikeDislikejust picking up aluminum cans can be a proffit aluminum is 60 to 80 cents a pound now in one year how many cans do you think you could save?about 30 cans make a pound.you do the math.is that green enough for you?
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LikeDislikeIf you are truly interested in being more “green” then you need to stop wasting resources. That’s all there is to it. Buying new products will not make you “greener”, so don’t buy into the CFL and solar panel club. Just use less.
Drive less/walk more
Eat local/avoid imports
Buy less/reuse more
Grow more edibles/grow less grass and landscape
All of these simple actions will save you money and make you “greener.”
The real cost of CFL Bulbs.
Every website about global warming urges us to “replace one regular bulb with the new CFL and save X tons of CO2 emissions.” The first CFL I bought came wrapped in a non-recyclable clam shell casing roughly the size of a small shoe box. What is eco-friendly about that? My regular light bulbs come in a simple, RECYCLABLE paper box. WalMart has stated that their sales goal of CFL’s for 2007 is 6,000,000 units. 6 MILLION plastic shoe boxes going into landfills from just one source!
Regular light bulbs are fairly nontoxic and break down into glass, aluminum, a bit of brass, and a little argon gas. All fairly simple and non-toxic. CFL bulbs on the other hand contain argon and mercury vapor and phosphors. These TOXIC chemicals have to be disposed of in special ways-In my case by driving them to the recycling station. If you break a CFL you risk exposing yourself and family to mercury and the bulb is no longer recycleable so mercury is sent to a landfill.
Regular light bulbs are 4/$1. CFL’s are still around $3.99 each.
My regular light bulbs are made by Americans, working good wage jobs in St Louis Missouri (GE is planning to close this factory in 2008) Philips Lighting has its corporate office in Somerset, New Jersey with manufacturing plants in Danville, KY; Bath, NY; Salina, KS; Fairmont, WV; Paris, TX. CFL’s are made by hand in China by workers who make around 9 CENTS per hour while being exposed to Mercury Vapor on a daily basis.
Regular bulbs travel up to 500 miles by truck and train(with American drivers) to reach consumers across America. CFL’s travel thousands of miles on ships manned by low wage foreign sailors.
Regular light bulbs are made mostly in American Factories under the close watch of the EPA, and maintain very high standards concerning air, water and soil contamination. CFL’s are made with almost no environmental oversight, causing huge swaths of contaminated ground. The areas around CFL plants in China typically show mercury poisoning in the soil, water and air. These very areas are also, typically where the factory workers live and grow subsistence gardens, thereby ingesting even more mercury.
Regular light bulbs use 60 watts per hour. CFL’s use 13 watts per hour. BUT, when I turn the regular bulb off, the energy savings is then equal to or better than the CFL.
As with any of the new eco-friendly products, think before you buy. The actual cost of many of these new ideas can be very steep and cruel when compared to traditional products . In 99% of cases it is much better to use old light bulbs more responsibly than it is to buy the new CFL’s. DON’T SWITCH IT OUT–JUST SWITCH IT OFF!
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