Green Living | Going Green and Saving Green
Going green doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, if you do it right, going green can save you some green. There are some great green ways of cutting down on expenses.
The economic times may be getting tough, so we decided to do our part for your personal economy by taking a little detour from our normally pest control oriented blog, to provide some tips on going green and saving money at the same time. There is some pest prevention related information here as well.
Reducing lawn expenses. Reduce your lawn space.
Lawns take up a lot of resources, and that costs a lot of money.
- Reduce your lawns size.
- Lawns eat up the majority of your home water resources, reducing the size of your lawn will reduce your water bill.
- Lawns Consume the majority of fertilizers used in home landscapes, reducing the size will reduce your fertilizer bill.
- Lawns are the major consumers of insecticides and herbicides, reducing the size will reduce the need for them and cost a lot less in the long run.
- The reduced lawn space will cost less, and be good for the environment.
- Make that extra space pay off. Plant a garden! The garden will provide a source of safe nutritious food to cut down on the supermarket costs.
- Even if you don’t want to get rid of part of your lawn, you should consider using part of your landscape area as a garden space. Just get rid of some of those exotic plants, and replace them with edible plants. Even in the winter you can grow such things as salad greens and cole crops like kale. In the summer, you can use sweet potatoes, which have a natural insect and weed repelling quality to them. There are hundreds of other garden plants that do well as ornamental plants as well.
- Plant some native fruiting trees and vines instead of those care intensive, and resource hungry exotic ornamental plants. The plants you use will also require some care, but at least you get to eat the fruit of your labor!
- Consider composting lawn and kitchen waste for fertilization instead of buying expensive commercial fertilizers.
Going green and saving money in your home
- Replace worn weather striping.
- Replace worn door sweeps.
- Caulk around the door frames and windows of your home.
- Check and caulk all plumbing, electrical, and communications lines entering your home, both inside and outside.
This will make the home both more energy efficient, and pest resistant, requiring less energy, and less pesticide, both of which cost you money, and have environmental impact. going green by using pest prevention is not only the greenest form of pest control, it is also the most economical form of pest control.
I am sure that there are thousands of other ways you can think of to go green and save green. If you have some things in mind, don’t be stingy, share them with others. That’s what our comment section is for! You can find a comment box at the bottom of each post.
