Intelligent Ways to Make your Home Eco-Friendly

Living eco-friendly is like living in heaven. It give healthy and fantastic lifestyle. Here is the article on how to live eco-friently.

More than the word “eco-friendly living” or “Green Home”, most of the people still have no idea about what it is.

Will share an interesting fact:

When I have asked to people about the meaning of green home and eco-friendly living, their replies were quite interesting:

Majority of people answered that, planting few trees around the home and putting some plants inside the home here there would convert the home as green home!

Another group said, the sunlight should not fall directly to the home because of lots of trees around the home.

Some of the intelligent people shared their great idea that, living inside a jungle or similar place!

So, what is an “eco-friendly” home and its features?

In simple words, living in a home that made by products and natural resources won’t hurt the environment through pollution.

Eco-friendly lifestyle also known as green living, nature friendly, and environment friendly.

Advantages of living green

Living green or being Eco-friendly has several exceptional benefits. Below are three major benefits of living green.

Even though, by leading an eco-friendly lifestyle, you are contributing your part to the nature to become cleaner and healthier.

Below are the specialties of green house. Also you can find some money saving tips too.

Water – Emerging as Costliest Utility in the World

Start with how to utilize water efficiently. Because, every drop of it counts.

Starting with installing a water meter. Ensure there are no leakages and have a separate storing area for water from kitchen, bathroom etc. Ensure the water entering to the storage area through the facility prepared to purify it.

This water can be recycled and can be turned to flush toilet as well as watering garden and plants.

Have a facility to collect and store rainwater. Each drop to any places in the home must be directed to a tank or facility through installing dedicated pipes for the same.

An ideal place to store the rainwater is in ground, Beside the storage or tank, it is easy to make a natural purification facility.

If you are not aware how to purify water, then here is the idea.

Near to the storage a 1 x 1 meter tank will be prepared and filled with metal, charcoal and again metals as layers. Collected rainwater first reach to the top layer and then flow down to the purification storage and from there it will go the storage tank by drop by drop through the pipe installed at the bottom of the purification pit.

A storage with enough capacity is enough to meet all your needs throughout the days in a year and help to save lots of money on water bills.

Remember the following tips:

• Never allow your pipes to leak. This would waste water drop by drop.
• Never use running water to wash anything such as vegetables or fruits. Instead, use a bowl to store water and wash such items
• Intelligently use your shower by taking short baths than long. Never allow the shower running freely if not using.
• Never wash your cars with water running hoses. Instead use a bucket and sponge to wash.
• Flow control to be in place to control the flow of water from taps and pipes.
• Installing drip irrigation systems in the garden will reduce the usage of water as well as wastage. You can even save your watering time too.

Waste Management and Recycling

Waste management is one of the important requirements in the green houses.

Having a separate place to produce compost to use in the garden instead of chemical fertilizers.

Also, plan for a bio-gas facility to work from the home wastes.

Stay away from items such as plastic, that harm the environment.

Always use natural materials inside and outside the home.

Practice the 3 R’s, Reduce – Reuse – Recycle.

Remember the following tips:

• Always have recycle bins nearer you.
• Always buy products that are compatible to recycle.
• Always explore re-using possibilities of any items.
• Say goodbye to plastic bags. Use Eco-friendly bags such as cloth bags.
• Buy food items in bulk to cut down disposable burdens. This would also help you to save lots of money
• Find the agencies to re-cycle hazardous wastes such as asbestos, paints, pesticides, oils, appliances etc.
• Enquire about re-cycling possibility of electronic items before making purchase decisions.

Deal with toxic and dangerous items that high in carbon

Never throw toxic items to public bin or places.

Items have high carbon emissions and dangerous to the nature such as aerosols, batteries, car batteries, CD’s and DVD’s, computers, drinking cans etc.., should recycled properly through contacting the agencies doing such.

Electricity – Take Solar Energy to Picture

Electricity is also a costliest utility along with water.

For an Eco-friendly home, utilize the options to install solar energy panels as a good source for electricity.

Installing solar panels are cheap and need less maintenance.

Installing windmill also good option to generate electricity.

Remember the points:

• Ensure your home have installed with necessary electricity saving controls and features.
• Always use eco-friendly light and light fittings.
• Utilize wood for heating your rooms.
• Ensure your electronic devices are energy efficient.
• Check all the electric insulation are perfect for all seasons
• Add provisions in the home to get direct sunlight inside the home in the daytime
• Intelligently use and reduce usage of iron box, water pumps, electric heater, washing machines etc. These devices need more electricity.
• Do periodic check-up of your electronic items to avoid electricity wastage.
• Cleaning in an Eco-Friendly way

Keep your home and surroundings clean always.

Prudently use air fresheners, floor cleaners, anti-bacterial cleaners, device and kitchen item cleaners, windows, toilet cleaners. Encourage the use of eco-friendly bio chemicals for these purposes.

• Using a good multifaceted cleaner eliminates using separate items.
• Take extra care to not drop chemical, paints, fluids or oil.
• Prepare your own solutions like mixing lemon and baking soda would not only give you very good cleaning liquid.
• Learn from net to create your own bio solutions that is not harmful to the nature and human.

Create an eco-friendly garden

A garden is a good idea with each home. If you have enough space, you should have a garden there.

Having an organic vegetable garden, helps to save money and health. Use the compost made in home:

Remember the following tips to save money:

• Reuse water – Water reusing facility can be converted as a water source for the garden and plants.
• No chemicals – eco garden uses composts to the plants to grow. It can be made from home and garden wastes
• Use only native plants. This is helpful to save more water. Being having native plants you are ensuring the plants would grow well and do not need any extra care to it.
• Use only organic pest control methods than using chemical. This would help the possibilities of vegetables turning toxic.
• Ensure the garden is water efficient. Make necessary changes to preserve natural water. Try water beds wherever applicable and required, to preserve water and prevent water lose.
• Turn the plant wastes to compost. Have a compost facility in the garden itself.
• Identify and implement facilities to collect rainwater in the garden. This would be different from main rainwater harvesting but using available methods like installing separate tanks and barrels in the garden.

Utilize the Power of Plants and Trees

Plant native trees around the home to get naturally purified water always. It can be fruits, decorative trees or any.

I preferred to plant native trees to plant. Ensure the trees would give advantages to you in the form of fruits or wood.

Carefully select the plants to inside the rooms and walls. It should not damage your home or walls and cheap in price. Ensure such plants are suitable to keep inside day and night.

Conclusion

Above are the facilities required to a green home. There are even many but the most required have mentioned in this article. Green home not meaning to live in a jungle as people think, but a peaceful life with nature.

Find your own methods to live eco-friendly by identifying and utilizing all the possibilities other than mentioned above. Do get advises from green organizations and websites to get more interesting and ideas about the topic.

OK, now it is your time dear readers! Do you think I missed anything especially any most required feature of a green home? Feel free to start shouting through comment box down.

But, remember! I will certainly try to justify myself maximum.