Save The Earth At Home
There are many things you can at home to help protect and preserve the planet. Here are some easy eco-friendly tips for making your home more environmentally friendly.
- Insulate your home
- Buy energy efficient appliances
- Caulk and weather-strip
- Install storm windows
- Wear warm clothing and turn down your thermostat
- Close off unused areas in your home
- Buy low wattage or compact fluorescent light bulbs
- Turn off lights that don't need to be on
- Use cold water instead of hot
- Use small ovens or stove-top cooking methods instead of your oven
- Don't burn wood during periods of high pollution
- Convert your fireplace to natural gas logs
- Don't let your fire smolder
- Use hard, dry wood when you do burn
- Buy a new, low polluting wood stove
- Put your fire completely out before you go to bed
- Clean your chimney
- Set your refrigerator to 38 degrees, no colder
- Insulate your water heater
- Substitute lemon oil or beeswax for wood cleaners, polishes and waxes
- Recycle aluminum and glass
- Recycle newspapers
- Reuse glass containers
- Buy a house plant
- Plant a tree
- Plant evergreen trees on the north side of your house
- Plant deciduous trees on the south
- Do all ironing at one time
- Snuggle with a friend and turn down the thermostat
- Run dishwashers only when fully loaded
- Run clothes washers only when fully loaded, but don't overload
- Hang your laundry to dry
- Clean the lint screen on your dryer
- Take quick showers instead of baths
- Install water-efficient showerheads and faucets
- Turn down your water heater to 121 degrees
- Start a recycling program in your neighborhood
- Defrost your freezer
- Buy recycled paper
- Cook with quick-heating, copper-bottom pans to conserve energy
- Teach your children about these ideas
- Use your microwave instead of the oven
- Limit or eliminate using disposable items
- Bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store
- Reuse your paper and plastic bags
- Write companies urging them to use paper rather than plastics
- Request paper instead of styrofoam whenever possible
- Use water-based paints whenever possible
- Buy products that will last
- Don't buy fire extinguishers containing halon