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There's a lot of talk these day's about greener living and reducing our carbon footprint. Not only is living a greener lifestyle great for the environment, but it's also better for our health and our wallets.
We eventually would love to live a pretty self sufficient and greener lifestyle, but we're working very slowly and getting greener by the day :)
The things we've done so far to help out are as follows:
- Solar hot water (was already here when we bought the house)
- Installed Solar Power
- Started a vege patch
- Compost heap
- Kids bath together
- Reuse bath water to mop the floor
- Slowly reducing our showers (on Sunday I had a 2 minute shower woohoooo, trying to get hubby to beat it but he won't even dare hehehe)
- Use a combination of Cloth Nappies and disposables - I would love to use MCN full time but I find it hard to do with 2 soon to be 3 in nappies.
- Turn things off at the wall when not in use.
- Slowly replacing appliances with Eco-friendly ones.
- Turn the power to the garage completely off.
- Cooking from scratch, reducing the amount of packaging that enters landfill.
- Walking the kids to school as much as possible rather than driving.
- Finding ways to reuse things.
- Switching most cleaning products for water, vinegar and bi-carb and buying Eco-friendly cleaners.
- Line or rack drying clothes.
- Encourage outside play rather then watching TV.
Wow that is a fantastic start you've made to your greener self sufficient life and the great thing is that because the kids are young they are learning this lifestyle too.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be more self sufficient and green but often feel I'm fighting a losing battle with the kids.
I think I should do a post like this to make myself more accountable so thanks for the kick in the pants.
Thanks Peta :) Yeah I must admit, it would be a losing battle if the kids were older - sometimes its a losing battle with the husband, but he's slowly getting on board which is great :)
ReplyDeleteYou might be in luck with your younger children esp with a vege patch, turning the compost heap and even bucketing water from the bath. My kiddo's help out and they have a ball. Like you said they're learning aswell :)
Good luck and I'm looking forward to your post :)