Comments on: 8 Ways to Green Your Home http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/ Make Everyday Earth Day Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha By: water tanks http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-18821 water tanks Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:57:16 +0000 http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-18821 Just on point 4: We all would like to use less water but it sometimes be a bit unrealistic and can be false economy. (Those water saving shower heads just make people take longer showers). It should really be 'Don't waste water'. Use as much water as you need providing you are doing something to make up for it, like storing rain in water tanks, or recycling your grey water. Then you can have a decent shower! If you can't do any of those things THEN use less water. Just on point 4: We all would like to use less water but it sometimes be a bit unrealistic and can be false economy. (Those water saving shower heads just make people take longer showers). It should really be ‘Don’t waste water’. Use as much water as you need providing you are doing something to make up for it, like storing rain in water tanks, or recycling your grey water. Then you can have a decent shower! If you can’t do any of those things THEN use less water.

]]> By: easy ways to go green around the house http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-14664 easy ways to go green around the house Mon, 19 May 2008 15:09:22 +0000 http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-14664 [...] Ways to Green Your HomeHere are eight easy ways to be eco-friendly around the house.http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/The Home Know-It-All: Easy Ways to Go Green Around the HouseEasy ways to Go green around the House. [...] [...] Ways to Green Your HomeHere are eight easy ways to be eco-friendly around the house.http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/The Home Know-It-All: Easy Ways to Go Green Around the HouseEasy ways to Go green around the House. [...]

]]> By: Earth911’s “Green Eight” Series « greener loudoun http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-7922 Earth911’s “Green Eight” Series « greener loudoun Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:31:31 +0000 http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-7922 [...] 8 Ways to Green Your Home  Here are eight simple activities around the house to reduce your impact on the environment, courtesy of Earth 911’s Green Eight series.  [...] [...] 8 Ways to Green Your Home  Here are eight simple activities around the house to reduce your impact on the environment, courtesy of Earth 911’s Green Eight series.  [...]

]]> By: bravenewleaf http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-7496 bravenewleaf Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:13:58 +0000 http://earth911.org/blog/2008/01/03/eight-ways-to-green-your-home/#comment-7496 Good starter list. I would add a series of hot water related items: -wash your clothes in cold water. There's no real reason to use hot water -turn down your water temperature to 120 F -insulate your hot water heater. It's easy to do, and makes your hot water heater 8% more efficient. The importance of recycling can't be emphasized enough. Keeping goods out of landfills isn't just about how quickly things biodegrade. What's more important is how much *energy* recycling saves, and how much greenhouse gas it reduces out of the air. As garbage decomposes, landfills create extraordinary amounts of sulfur dioxide emissions, which is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. And reusing materials, like the aluminum in cans, means we don't have to go get more from the Earth, which takes enormous amounts of coal and gas-powered energy to achieve. Good starter list. I would add a series of hot water related items:
-wash your clothes in cold water. There’s no real reason to use hot water
-turn down your water temperature to 120 F
-insulate your hot water heater. It’s easy to do, and makes your hot water heater 8% more efficient.

The importance of recycling can’t be emphasized enough. Keeping goods out of landfills isn’t just about how quickly things biodegrade. What’s more important is how much *energy* recycling saves, and how much greenhouse gas it reduces out of the air.

As garbage decomposes, landfills create extraordinary amounts of sulfur dioxide emissions, which is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.

And reusing materials, like the aluminum in cans, means we don’t have to go get more from the Earth, which takes enormous amounts of coal and gas-powered energy to achieve.

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