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There are countless ways to lessen your carbon footprint in Connecticut. The simple but helpful secrets listed below will not only benefit our planet but also save you a lot of cash. Here’s our list of the ten best ways to “go green” in Connecticut.

Use CFL Bulbs

Although Compact Florescent Light bulbs cost more than traditional light bulbs, they are worth every cent. CFLs last ten times longer than regular bulbs and are over 70 percent more energy-efficient. Using CFLs can cut your lighting expenses in half!

Use a Timer

Maximize energy efficiency in your Connecticut home by using a timer for your lighting system or your HVAC. If your system doesn’t have its own timer, you can buy an inexpensive one at a home improvement retailer.

Use Public Transportation

Whenever possible, avoid driving and, instead, take a bus, carpool with friends, ride your bike, or walk to your destination. Doing so will not only reduce pollution but also lower your transportation expenses.

Purchase Recycled Printer Cartridges

We all know the many benefits of recycling. But it’s not enough to recycle only plastics and soda cans. You can also recycle your printer’s empty ink cartridges. Plus, you can purchase recycled printer cartridges for half the price of what you’d pay in a store. In this way, you will not only help the environment but also save a lot of cash!

Install Energy-Saving Appliances

Outdated home appliances typically use a lot more energy than they actually need. And since home appliances take up almost 20 percent of your total energy usage, it’s important to replace energy-depleting appliances with eco-friendly ones, which cost much less to operate.

Tightly Seal your Home to Maximize Energy-Efficiency

Another great way to use less and save more is by properly insulating and sealing your Connecticut home. Especially if you live in an older home, your insulation might need to be added to or replaced.

Insulate your Hot Water Heater

If your Connecticut home or office has a hot water heater, check to make sure it is running efficiently. If your water heater feels warm when you touch it, that means it’s wasting heat and costing you money. To reduce this wasted energy, simply wrap your tank with extra insulation.

Use Less Water

Did you know that the average Connecticut home wastes almost 11,000 galloons of water each year? Fortunately, there are numerous ways for Connecticut residents to conserve water. Use an eco-friendly shower head, an efficient washer, or an updated dishwasher. When washing clothes, you can reduce energy use by air drying garments and always washing full loads.

Unplug Unused Appliances

One of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to turn off unused appliances and electronics. Doing so can lower your energy bill by five percent.

Use Fans in the Summertime

While we all want to be comfortable in our Connecticut home, one of the best ways to “go green” is by changing your thermostat. Raising the temperature just two degrees in the summer and lowering it in the winter is an eco-friendly way to save hundreds of dollars a year. If you get hot in the summer, just use a fan to cool off.

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More and more people are talking about eco friendly living. For the sake of your children and grand-children you know that changes must be made. But where do we start? You can’t break years of habits in a few weeks.

Some families have found the following idea useful. It’s a simple trick that you use when you go grocery shopping or at the beginning or every work day.

Make a list.

That’s it, just make a list of all the ways you’d like to change your life and home to be more environmentally friendly.

You know when you sit down at your desk or computer every morning it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. If you start randomly doing tasks you’ll manage to put out a lot of fires and resolve immediate issues. But sometimes the priorities are left behind. To avoid that, you make a list of things you must do to keep your business running smoothly and productively.

Plus, we all know how good it feels at the end of the day to see a list with all the items crossed out. Whether it’s done by computer or on an old-fashioned spiral notebook, it’s uplifting to see your “to do list” is all done.

So why not take the same strategy with your goal to be more eco friendly? Here’s a few of the ideas you could jot down on your list.

Replace light bulbs with more energy efficient types
Check prices on more energy efficient A/C and heating units

Set dates to purchase newer units

Make a plan to save money to finance purchases

Replace thermostats with programmable thermostats.
Take unusable clothes to Goodwill or Salvation Army.
Replace outdoor lighting with solar powered lights.
Hold a garage sale and clear out some clutter.
Find some good Yoga or Pilates DVD’s and start working out regularly.
Find a source that sells many environmentally friendly products in one place.
Buy a water purifier so you can stop buying plastic water bottles.
Start giving to a charity that supports earth friendly causes.

 

These are a few examples of steps your family could take to be more environmentally friendly. By listing them out you can prioritize which steps to take first. Make sure your children feel they are part of the plan. Explain to them why it’s important to take care of the Earth and it’s resources.

 

As you scratch each item off your list, you and your family will be one step closer to eco friendly living.

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To some people living green is a catchphrase.  It’s trendy and everyone wants to be green or at least be perceived as being green.  Recently the biggest place to be reminded of green living is in the checkout aisle of the supermarket. It seems everyone has reusable cloth bags.  Some have the store name; others promote cancer research or some other
cause. If you actually buy a reusable shopping bag, you might even think about being green later on at home.  As you unpack your groceries you look out the window and think…what is green?

Windows are probably the biggest contributor to energy loss and cost, making them probably the least green feature of the house.  Windows transmit heat readily, which means that in the winter; heat is literally sucked out of the house.  Even if the windows seal well and have no drafts, windows will be significantly colder than the surrounding walls.  And the more windows the more heat loss.

In the summer, there can be two issues.  First, the windows will bring heat in to the house (heat always goes from hot to cold). Second, infrared heat from the sun can pass through the windows to heat objects in the room and thus heat up the room.

Probably the easiest way to combat heat loss or gain through the windows is simple window treatments.  A thin, semi transparent curtain called a shear can create an air space between the window and the room, mitigating heat loss.  Like the reusable cloth shopping bag, a little cloth can address a big environmental problem.

Newer houses usually have double pane glass, which have two layers of glass with an air space or vacuum.  This can allow you to not have a window treatment while not loosing heat, although even double pane glass looses more heat than an insulated wall, so cloth shears can still help you to have eco friendly living.

If you have an old house, it will cost a bit more to truly get green and eco friendly windows. There are several ways to improve your windows and they vary in cost.  The cheapest is to put poly film over the outside of the windows in the wintertime.  Thin plastic film can be put up with double face tape and or staples. By having the film on the
outside, it helps to seal drafts as well.

The second least costly way is to put storms and screens on your windows.  Storm windows are a single pane glass that goes over the outside of your windows, much like the film. These are mounted on made to order frames and attached to the house.  Most also come with a provision for screens, allowing them to be opened up for natural cooling in the summer.

Finally if you really want to have the best and most eco friendly windows, you can put in replacement windows.  This will replace your old fashioned windows with modern insulated double pane glass windows.  If you are going to do this you are probably the person who doesn’t buy just any reusable shopping bag, but an organic cotton bag! These
windows can have a payback time of 5 years or so, but represent the greenest option.

Go look out your window, then look at your window and ask, can I be greener?

Eliza Reeder writes articles that deal with environmental concerns and eco-friendly living. She encourages everyone to help protect our planet’s future by doing things like using reusable bags. You can find more eco-friendly living tips on her organic cotton bags site.

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Being green and eco friendly is not difficult to achieve and it doesn’t require huge sacrifices in the way you live your life. Being green can be achieved with only small and subtle changes that will not only improve the environment but can often reward you in other ways too.

Here are perhaps the five simplest ways that you can not only make a difference to the environment but also can save you money in the long run:

Recycling

Perhaps the single most important way of becoming eco friendly is to ensure you are recycling. Recycling is one of the most direct ways you can benefit the environment. But recycling is more than just using a recycling bin to separate your waste. There are other ways to recycle to. Compost in the garden or ensuring you don;t throw anything away that is still functional and useful to somebody./

Energy Saving

Saving energy is another way of helping the environment by reducing your carbon footprint. It can be done in a multitude of ways from driving less to ensuring you switch devices off from standby. You can even get energy monitors to work out your energy consumption.

Reduce waste

Reducing waste can also be done in a multitude of ways. From ensuring we are not wasting electricity to not buying things we don’t really need. Try and by buy things without excess packaging and recycle rather than throw things away

Buy Eco friendly Products

Often there is an eco friendly or friendlier solution to many of the things we buy. Nearly everything from eco cars to eco kettles are available. Look for energy efficient alternatives and choose items that require less energy than the alternatives.

Try Natural Methods

Often there is also a natural solution to many problems. Try and avoid using chemical in things like cleaners and look for natural alternatives. Revert to drying clothes on a line rather than a washing machine or use a clothes airer. Often natural methods are just as efficient but also cost us a lot less to employ.

Richard N Williams is interested in green innovations and writes about them. Please visit our website if you are interested in energy saving products or other eco-friendly products

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Eco Friendly Tips to living Green


September 17th, 2009 by Richard N Williams

Being eco friendly or living in an environmentally friendly way is often preached to us from the media, government, friends and colleagues. But eco friendly living can often be confusing with mixed messages coming from different quarters.

For instance some people claim bio-diesel is a green fuel as it produces les CO2 than conventional fuels. Others argue it takes up valuable arable land and that the fuel is essentially foodstuffs that could go to feeding people. So it becomes difficult to know who to believe.

And as being green is all about thinking about how individually we effect the environment – often what works for one person doesn’t necessarily work, or can be practical, to another.

However, there are a few things that many people agree can go a long way to helping the environment and most people can fit into their lives:=

Recycling. Recycling is perhaps the most important thing that we can do that directly help the environment. When you consider how much rubbish each of us throw away each year it soon becomes clear that reducing that amount will make an individual difference. Recycling bins go a long way to make things easier too.

Buy organic products where no harmful chemicals/pesticides have been used. Whilst they may be more expensive but anything we can do to help prevent pollution of our countryside and seas will benefit generations to come. Its not just about organic food either, organic clothing and other organic products are available.
Try and use natural alternatives. What was good for grandma is probably good for the planet too. Old fashioned methods such as drying clothes on an clothes airer will not only cut down on your carbon footprint but also reduce your energy bills.

Try different energy methods. Hybrid cars are one way of using new technology but replace some of the battery powered stuff with say solar powered gadgets. Even consider using solar powered chargers to recharge your laptop or ipod. Every little bit helps.

Richard N Williams is interested in green innovations and writes about them. Please visit our website if you are interested in recycling products or other eco-friendly ideas.

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