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Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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With spring cleaning is full swing, it is the perfective time to incorporate little changes in your home in order to decrease your affect on the environment. Here are the top 10 easy ways to make your home an eco-friendly one.

Replace burnt out light bulbs with energy-efficient ones and invest in proper insulation, specially if you have an older home. These inexpensive tactics will not only lower your environmental impact, but they will also without delay reduce your electric bill.

Don’t just turn gimmicks off, get them off the grid. Even when gimmicks are turned off, if they are still plugged into a live socket, they are still pulling energy off the grid. When possible, unplug gimmicks that are not in use. In some instances a power strip with a master on/off switch may prove more convenient.

Invest in a solar powered charger for your cell phone and other mobile devices.

During the summer, consider hanging clothes outside to dry. It’s easy, inexpensive and is surprising relaxing.

Start composting your kitchen scraps. A scheme based on fermentation (Bokashi) rather than decomposition makes kitchen composting fast, easy and substantially less smelly to compost in the home.

Donate your old clothes and household items. Instead of creating waste, you will be helping others.

Be smart when it comes to water usage. Turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth and shave. Install a low-flow shower head in your shower. (If you tried one in the past and found the pressure unsatisfactory, I commend giving them a second try. The engineering has come a long way.) Scrape scraps off dishes into the rubbish or compost bucket before rinsing them. If your faucet does not have an aerator (the wire mesh filter), it is easy and inexpensive to install one. (These little contraptions may reduce your water flow by 50% without negatively impacting water pressure!) If you do not have high-efficiency toilets, consider this low-cost alternative: rocks in a plastic bottle. Just place a water bottle filled with pebbles into the tank and you will substantially decrease your water usage.

Use eco-friendly cleaning productions in the home. Look for biologically driven cleaning agents such as using microbial innoculants to break down undesirable compounds, rather than harsh chemicals. This not only reduces chemical run-off in our ground water, but it likewise protects your family and pets from exuberant exposure to toxic chemicals which may lead to chemical sensitivities and other health issues.

If you arrive at the grocery store without your reusable buying goods bag (and who hasn’t?), plainly find a secondary use for the plastic buying goods bags in a lot of other facet of your life. For example, my family uses plastic grocery bags for picking up after the dog on walks and disposing of our cats’ litter. If you can not find a good secondary use for your plastic bags, a heap of grocery stores have recycle bins… just fetch them along the next time you go shopping.

Commit to using less disposable things in the home. If you use disposable paper towels, cups, cutlery or razors, reconsider. Likewise, filtering and filling your own water bottles saves a tremendous amount of waste.