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Get the whole family involved in saving energy and conserving natural resources, it’s important for everyone to learn to conserve. Even if global warming were a big hoax, what’s wrong with living cleaner and wasting less?
When you have a family, you know how important it is to be environmentally conscious. After all, you have the future right in front of you and you’re passing the earth onto your kids. Going green doesn’t have to mean giving up conveniences and living with less. You can live as a modern family and still conserve energy and natural resources. This is a great concept for the whole family to embrace and a good way to show your kids that their actions have an impact.
If you make it fun and meaningful, you’ll find the kids wanting to get involved and they’ll probably come up with some great ways of their own for going green. Here are five easy ways to go green today…
Start with the lunchbox. If you have school age kids, this is a great place to go green. When you have to pack a few lunches every day, it is tempting to go for the snack size bags of lunch items, but don’t do it – it’s for the kids! You can save money with this tip, too. Buy the larger size bags of snacks and then use reusable bags to divvy up the goodies. Wash the bags out and put them on a drying rack to use the next day.
The second tip also might go in the lunch bag. Get everyone in your family their own reusable water bottle. Let each child pick out one in their favorite color, so you don’t have any fights about one being cooler than another. Use these in the lunchboxes. Most schools today will allow students to refill bottles from the water fountain, making the bottles great for those hot days in the classroom.
If your kids are like most, they come home from school with a backpack full of papers. After you check through the pile and hang the gold star work on the fridge, put the rest in the recycling bin. Tip number three sounds simple enough, but most people don’t look beyond the newspapers and magazines when it comes to recycling paper. If you don’t want to have an ugly recycling bin in your home, keep a decorative basket in your kitchen for recycling mail, work papers, newspapers and magazines. The more convenient you make recycling, the more likely you and your kids are to stick with the habit.
Tips number four and five have to do with the lights. Change your standard light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs to save energy and money. These bulbs last longer and are continuing to improve with dimmable options and a variety of sizes. The last tip is to remind your kids, and yourself, to turn off the lights when leaving a room. Yes, it is a simple tip, but very effective.
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Who wants to spend more money on stuff? If you can still live comfortably and save some cash, I say why not?
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I believe your intro should read “even if global warming WERE a big hoax — and of course it isn’t — etc….” or something to that effect.
The way you put it, you’re saying it COULD BE, and I’m sure that’s not what you meant!!!!
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@Chas – Agreed
@Gina – I changed the intro. I truly have no idea what to believe in regards to global warming. You’d think that if global warming were true, every scientist would see the facts and that would be the end of it. Kind of like “the earth is round” or “the sun is hot” or “too many donuts will make you chunky”. You seem convinced – I’d absolutely love to read/watch some of the things you have. Got any links to some resources?
I think global warming is a hoax! The earth has natural cycles that warm and cool the planet. Although, I’m all about living greener and cleaner.
Exactly my point. Even if there weren’t global warming (which there is) what is wrong with changing your lifestyle and energy use in the name of the environment?
@solarglobalgreen – nothing.
It is very important to be good stewards of the environment and to teach these concepts and principles to our children. I love how today kids are learning more and more in school. They are actually bringing things home to teach to us.
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Here very good steps are given which all should follow to keep our environment fresh and clean.”Going green” means to pursue knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles, which can help protect the environment and sustain its natural resources for current and future generations.
That’s a good tips, but actually We always talk about tips and write that. The most important things is take action. Actually whether global warning is hoax or not We should move to going green as going green mean to live a healthy life as well and will make us life longer.
Regards,
Emily
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I am going to try to do my part by building some solar panels for my home. I learned how and it is very simple and cheap. I don’t know why they charge so much for them at the stores.
Another good thing to do if you have a sprinkler system for your lawn would be to check the system once a week or month. Make sure your heads are spraying only on the lawn, not on the street or sidewalk. Another good way to save some water and money on the water bill would be to set the sprinklers to water only early in the morning once a week for a longer period during the summer months. This will give a deeper watering then if you were to water 3 or 4 times a week. The deeper the watering, the stronger the root system making the grass more drought tolerant.