7 Easy Ways to Go Green

Many people are hearing about the need to go Green for many reasons but they don’t quite know where to start. The best way to go Green is to start with the small things around the home and build up from there. If you think of ‘Greening’ your life as changing one item at a time and you will find that you are doing more and more Green activities each day.

So where should you start? Here are some simple ways of being more Green in your life:

1. Get a propane grill. This is much more Green than using charcoal, though green burning charcoal is available. However, it is not as green as the clean burning propane.

2. Purchasing Green Power is an alternative that is coming to more and more states. Visit this website (http://apps3.eere.energy.gov/greenpower/buying/buying_power.shtml) to check your state and find out who offers Green power in your state. You can also compare utility Green pricing, as well as local Green power products. You can also find information on purchasing renewable energy certificate products.

3. Bring your own bags. Neither paper nor plastic is a good choice anymore. Paper bags waste our trees and plastic bags are estimated to still be in the landfills (and our oceans) for over a million years. What is the Green alternative when shopping? Many stores are offering reusable, environmentally safe bags for $.99. Purchase a bag each time you go to the grocery store and you will find that you have enough bags to carry all of your regular groceries after just a few trips. Be sure to throw the bags back in your car so you don’t forget them when you go to the store.

4. Do you really need to get the newspaper delivered to your door everyday? Many newspapers are available online and you will save a lot of paper each year if you cancel your delivery subscription.

5. Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs last an unbelievable 1000-plus hours longer, and use less energy than regular bulbs. Replace your current bulbs as they burn out so you spread the cost of creating a Green lit home.

6. Cheap candles could be hurting your health. Clean burning candles are now available to still give you the opportunity to use candlelight without polluting your indoor air.

7. Try to reduce the use of plastics as much as possible. Some plastics are effecting some peoples health on a personal level because some plastics will leech into foods and liquids, which are then ingested. We don’t know the effects of these plastics in the body. Another reason to reduce plastic is because the manufacturing of the plastic items also pollutes the environment.

These are some simple ways that you can start to be more Green without altering your lifestyle dramatically. Try out these ideas as well as any other Green ideas that you come across, a little at a time, and you will find yourself living a Green lifestyle.