Going Green?

Question

What are some quick,easy and inexpensive ways to go Green?

Answer 1

-Buy CFL lightbulbs and install them throughout your house
-Use eco-friendly cleaning products
-Keep the blinds open during the day to maximize sun-usage to cut back on turning on lights
-Wash your clothes in cold water
-Re-sure paper and plastic bags at the grocery store,Or,buy canvas bags and use them over and over
-Ride your bike to work/school,Or take mass-transit
-Keep plants in your house to help keep the oxygen clean
-Turn off appliances and electronics when not in use
-Buy local/organic products
-Grow your own produce
-Collect rain water to water your plants instead of running the faucet to fill your watering can
-Recycle all your cardboard,glass,metal and plastics
-Start a compost pile
Thats all I can think of for now

Yay Green!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Before you do anything, have a look at your lifestyle. The biggest thing you can possibly do is limit the size of your family. The more people there are, the more demand on finite resources particularly if those babies are born in the West.

Next thing is don't buy so much stuff. Limit what you buy, limit what you consume.

The last thing is conservation of the things you do have to use, so insulate your home, stop draughts, use a rain water butt for outside water use. Turn off appliances you don't use, replace appliances as they wear out with more energy effieciency ones.

To go green the best way is to think about ways of SAVING MONEY, you will then automatically do the things you need to; buy less, reuse more, recycle more. If you see the things you do buy as a long term investment you will make better choices too so buy a willow wash basket that always looks great even as it ages, it can also be composted when it eventually breaks instead of several cheap plastic ones that soon get shabby.

Answer 4

1. Replace all incandescent or halogen light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs
2. Adjust your thermostat:
When you're home in the summer - 73 to 75
When you're not home in the summer - at least 76
When you're home or not in the fall - 68 to 72
When you're home in the winter - 64 to 67
When you're not home in the winter - at most 63
When you're home or not in the spring - 68 to 72
3. Turn off and unplug any electronic devices that aren't in use
4. Recycle anything with the recycling label on it
5. Recycle aluminum cans and cardboard even if they don't have the recycling label on it
6. Don't buy paper cups and plates unless you're going to re-use them
7. Wash dishes, glass, and utensils in the sink rather than the dishwasher
8. Don't fly to destinations that are less than 500 miles long
9. Rarely use the AC in your car unless it's an emergency -- you can save an extra two miles on gas (this makes a BIG difference to the environment)
10. Eat less red meat and more whole grain -- cows are big methane (a greenhouse gas) emitters, so don't encourage yourself and others to buy cow meat
11. Use an electric lawn mower instead of a gas one -- electric mowers emit less greenhouse gases than gas mowers and are less expensive to purchase
12. Manually rake leaves instead of using a leaf blower
13. Take shorter showers using cooler water
14. Always wash cloths in cold water -- cold water cleans just as well as warm
15. Hang your cloths outside to dry on warm/hot sunny days -- the dier uses the second most energy out of all electric appliances (the AC uses the most)
16. Flush the toilet less often - you can save 1.6 gallons of water from being wasted each time you don't flush (just spray your bathroom with a fresh scent)
17. Drink tap water instead of bottled water -- bottled water is transported in large trucks (big polluters) over lvery ong distances
18. Rarely order products -- packages are transported in large trucks (big polluters) over very long distances

OR,

just buy the book, 365 Ways To Save The Earth by Philippe Bourseiller

Answer 5

Have a garden where you live.Plant vegetables and watch them grow as you whisper sweet nothings at them.Give your much loved garden all your vegetation stuff from your kitchen to your garden. The worst sin to commit is putting any kind of organic stuff in a bin and letting a garbage man take it away.I ask my neighbors for compostable things,even the dust from vacuum cleaners.Watching my garden Go Green is the best reward.I only hope that one day in the future garbage bins will be a sad reminder of how people use to live in 2007.

Answer 6

-Buy CFL lightbulbs and install them throughout your house
-Use eco-friendly cleaning products
-Keep the blinds open during the day to maximize sun-usage to cut back on turning on lights
-Wash your clothes in cold water
-Re-sure paper and plastic bags at the grocery store,Or,buy canvas bags and use them over and over
-Ride your bike to work/school,Or take mass-transit
-Keep plants in your house to help keep the oxygen clean
-Turn off appliances and electronics when not in use
-Buy local/organic products
-Grow your own produce
-Collect rain water to water your plants instead of running the faucet to fill your watering can
-Recycle all your cardboard,glass,metal and plastics
-Start a compost pile
Thats all I can think of for now

Yay Green!

i am green too

Answer 7

high energy efficient T.V. like a lcd tv. led light bulbs are another way. put a timer on you hot water heater. or if you can afford one get a tankless hot water heater. dimmer switches on your lights.
insulate your home with foil bubble insulation sold at lowes. or the 2 inch think foam boards to insulate your home.

Answer 8

Don't want to sound harsh, but you can start by doing a search of Yahoo Answers. Not only does this exact question pop up every other day, but its already been well answered.

Peace. ~Slacker

Answer 9

hang out under a tree.it will take a long time but you will go green and its cheap.

Answer 10

stop using wood furnitures.
develop and use alternative materials for furnitures etc.
thnks