Helping the Environment
You can help the environment by making minor adjustments in your life style and without any expenditure of any kind.
Quite a few of the changes can even mean that you will improve your health and feel good about the effort you are making to help the environment.
Electrical consumption Energy bills that come from heating and cooling and even using the refrigerator.
Just ensuring that there are no energy leaks from open doors and windows and keeping the refrigerator door open for as short a time as possible can greatly reduced energy bills.
This will ensure that your energy usage will come down and thus reduce the load on the utility supplying you the power and hence reduce the carbon footprint of the utility and thus help the environment.
You can do the same thing by reducing the thermostats when you are heating the home and increasing the temperature when you are cooling it.
Switching to CFL bulbs is something that we have heard of, time and again and these could again reduce your energy bills.
In addition you can ensure lower electrical consumption by switching of lights and appliances when they are not in use.
Water consumption Reduce water consumption by using low flow shower heads or opting for cisterns that have reduced water consumption.
See if you can reduce the water wasted in washing cars.
Dry wipe the car and use a damp cloth instead.
The end result will be the same, but you would have saved yourself a lot of water.
Water is a resource in the environment that is constantly in short supply and you could help the environment by reducing its usage.
Use drip irrigation in your garden to reduce water consumption.
Creating garbage Households create a lot of garbage and it is for each householder to see if he can reduce this by reusing material or transferring it to a compost heap that will help to reduce the overall quantity of garbage.
If you do this you can even create valuable compost for your garden without too much off effort.
Air pollution Every time you take your car out, you are adding some pollutants to the atmosphere.
Reduce your dependent on the car and see if nearby trips around your neighborhood can be made by just walking down to the store or your child's school.
This will not only reduce air pollution, but could help your health by giving your body some exercise.
There are other ways to help the environment by planting trees in your own garden and also encouraging the planting of trees all around your neighborhood and even in public areas.
Spread this message of helping the environment to children, neighbors and your social circle and you could do your bit to help the environment.
Quite a few of the changes can even mean that you will improve your health and feel good about the effort you are making to help the environment.
Electrical consumption Energy bills that come from heating and cooling and even using the refrigerator.
Just ensuring that there are no energy leaks from open doors and windows and keeping the refrigerator door open for as short a time as possible can greatly reduced energy bills.
This will ensure that your energy usage will come down and thus reduce the load on the utility supplying you the power and hence reduce the carbon footprint of the utility and thus help the environment.
You can do the same thing by reducing the thermostats when you are heating the home and increasing the temperature when you are cooling it.
Switching to CFL bulbs is something that we have heard of, time and again and these could again reduce your energy bills.
In addition you can ensure lower electrical consumption by switching of lights and appliances when they are not in use.
Water consumption Reduce water consumption by using low flow shower heads or opting for cisterns that have reduced water consumption.
See if you can reduce the water wasted in washing cars.
Dry wipe the car and use a damp cloth instead.
The end result will be the same, but you would have saved yourself a lot of water.
Water is a resource in the environment that is constantly in short supply and you could help the environment by reducing its usage.
Use drip irrigation in your garden to reduce water consumption.
Creating garbage Households create a lot of garbage and it is for each householder to see if he can reduce this by reusing material or transferring it to a compost heap that will help to reduce the overall quantity of garbage.
If you do this you can even create valuable compost for your garden without too much off effort.
Air pollution Every time you take your car out, you are adding some pollutants to the atmosphere.
Reduce your dependent on the car and see if nearby trips around your neighborhood can be made by just walking down to the store or your child's school.
This will not only reduce air pollution, but could help your health by giving your body some exercise.
There are other ways to help the environment by planting trees in your own garden and also encouraging the planting of trees all around your neighborhood and even in public areas.
Spread this message of helping the environment to children, neighbors and your social circle and you could do your bit to help the environment.
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