Green Living Home

Looking for a way to reduce your energy costs? If you consult your local energy company, you will likely receive a brochure explaining how to wrap your pipes, put a blanket around your hot water heater, plugging cracks and holes through which drafts can flow, and adding reflective coatings to your windows. No harm in any of that, and it’s a good start. But for homeowners, there is a better place to start – start at the top, with your roof.

Why start with the roof? For the same reason that your mother tells you to wear a hat outside in snowy weather – just as most of your body heat is lost through your head, most of your home’s heat is lost through the roof. Heat ri

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Landscape gardening has plenty of positives associated with it when it comes to noticing to why you should consider doing it. Getting to know the right things that you have to use into your landscape garden and having them managed at the same time asks for a lot of hard work and potential but once you have gone through it all, you would be able to make the most out of your landscape garden. Most of the people don’t realize that having landscape gardening in their house would actually give them a lot of effects and results that they don’t know of at the moment. Looking at a bigger picture in these regards is really important.

If you want to have positive associated with landscape gardening, you should know that there are a lot of practical implementations and steps you would need to take and have notified before the project gets accomplished. A p

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Maybe one green change alone cant make this world a greener place, but thousands, millions of ones will. One drop in a bucket hardly makes a splash. But millions of individual drops make an ocean.

Here are 25 ways to green your home- room by room- today:

General

1. What? USE ORGANIC HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS Why? You may think that the air pollution outside is pretty bad. Well according to the Environmental Protection Agency its even worse inside- as much as 5 times worse! Because Americans spend an average of 90% of their time inside, the pollution that you live and sleep with is a problem that you should start to take very seriously. One way that you can make change and lower the toxicity of your home sweet home is by switching to non-chemical cleaning products.

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This vintage-inspired pendant shade from Urban Outfitters sure to add a spectrum of light to just about any space. Features rows of slatted wood attached to a sturdy metal frame; painted at the inside. Pairs perfectly with our Cord Kit for an eye-catching lighting option. Finished with a hook at the top for easy hanging.

Water management is a system of keeping unwanted water from invading your home by directing it away from the home. On the home, it’s the roof, flashing, gutters, downspouts, windows and doors that keep water outside. In your yard, it’s about drainage and landscaping to prevent standing water and erosion problems.

The final link in the water management chain is public sewer lines which carry away all the excess water from your home and yard. A sewer backup is a stressful and smelly situation that can cause property damage, so preventing it is the first line of defense, but knowing what to do if it happens is also important.

Don’t Put It Down the Drain

Items that aren’t waste water or biodegradable (like toilet tissue) can become lodged in the lateral line (the underground pipe that connects your home to the main sewer line), creating a dam which forces the waste water back into your home. The fol

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