Personal Green Plans: Create Project lists
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Many of you are sophisticated conservationists. You may have already started the most common green changes. You may even be buying most of your clothes at thrift shops. Here’s where the challenges become even more fun. Perhaps even bigger.
Water conservation is an example of another great green project. Yes industrial water use needs to be altered, even Pepsi or Coca Cola are making water saving programs. We can too.
In a recent report from Santa Fe NM, our wells are actualy improving. It was a curious report 24 improved, 11 went down. There is some hope here, because in years of drought we made some progress.
Using excess water often also uses more power. Thus evaluate all ways in the house that when you use more water, you compound other energy useage. Make a list of 30 ways to save water in your home. Small changes make a big difference. You can pick any area of concern in your home, or something you are already doing, and consider expanding that list. It may make a big difference in your savings, and helping the planet.
Having success with your green plans? Share and create small workshops to help others do the same.
Now if you are going to complete an energy check of your home, invite the whole family to participate. Make lists. Where is there room for improvement? Is there a bigger project that could help you save? Are there health savings that you could create?
I’d love to have solar power: out of budget for now. However, in the summer I can not use the AC. I love to garden, so this year I’m planning ways to have more small water catching systems. Low budget. Last year my friend saved to repair her roof. Got a new type of roofing and has save lots of money on heat this winter.
Got kids? You might create a small clothing exchange with other families to pass on and recycle old clothes. As a child just one family who gave my Mom old clothes kept me in great quality clothes for years. My Mom also sewed, so her reduction in clothes expenditures was significant. My sister wouldn’t wear my hand me downs. The families did not have boys. As I was an adolescent for awhile, a single woman who was a sister of my Mom’s best friend, gave me all her party dresses that she’d never wear again. Primo stuff.
Perhaps you create a project idea that you don’t have a budget for. Yard sale time! Reduce your waste of old things unused, and create the budget for…
If you do create a new Green Project, send me your ideas. I’d love to hear what you are doing, and if you want I can share it with others. Feel free to copy this and pass it on.
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