30 Days to GO Green – 7 tips to Go Green in Your Home

 

30 Days to GO Green – 7 tips to Green Up your Home

Thanks to Brian Clark for the inspiration to write this post based on “Cosmo Headlines.”

My version of a Green Cleanse – introducing tips that will be the start of the next month of posts – right in time to make  your New Year’s Resolutions!

The challenge – go Green for the next 30 days with these tips . We’ll post them a week at a time so you can get prepared and some fun (why not apply the same concepts for your work, your clients and your house?)

1-7 – Green Up Your Home

1.    Organize the recycling – get three separate bins or an all-in-one combination (live in Canada? Canadian Tire, Zellers and Home sense all have versions)

 

2.    Ditch the Ziploc bags for snacks and sandwiches that you pack to work – try out Abeego Designs. Buy at www.abeego.etsy.com. (Just saw them at the One of A Kind Show. They have a funky, functional and reusable hemp and cotton blended sandwich and snack holder)

 

3.    And while you’re at it this week, get yourself a reusable mug for your coffee addiction! A good one will not only prevent all that unnecessary trash from ending up in our landfills, it will also keep your hot drink HOT for longer. (I have a Starbucks one from 3 years ago that I use every day – it keeps my tea hot for hours- no joke!)

 

4.    Read the book “Green Clean” The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home, published by Melcher Media and swap all of the chemicals under your sink for baking soda, vinegar, castile soap, some essential oils and a lemon.  I was surprised how many cleaning solutions I could make for our kitchen and bathroom.

 

5.    Switch your plastic garbage bags to biodegradable ones.  There are Buffalo Bags or Frogfile carries Ecodegradable garbage bags.

 

6.    Keep canvas shopping bags handy in your car (if you have one) and on your keychain.  At our apartment we have a fashionable canvas bag of canvas bags hanging on our front entrance door – helps us remember to bring them with us.

 

7.    Unplug yourself …from the wall –(you’ve probably heard this before but I’ll say it again) TURN OFF your computer and unplug it from the wall and repeat with your lights, small appliances and your cell phone charger.  Save on the hydro bill (if you’re in BC). I’ll likely brag about this again – but our bill (2 people, 530 square feet) is approximately $15 a month.

Stay tuned next week (or sooner) I’ll post 7 more tips to green up your world.