Green home is a concept comprising of building or making homes using less fossil-fuel energy, water and chemicals, creating less waste and informally creating healthy environment and earth-friendly place for you and your family to live in.
Simultaneously its a step forward to contribute to the idea of building Green planet and eventually erasing most of the environmental issues.
But what it really means to go Green? Its something your brain asks you when going through the word Green. “Going Green means different things to different people.” To some people, it means switching to a car that uses less gas. To others, it means getting rid of the car altogether and walking or biking wherever they need to go. When some people think of going green, they focus on what they buy.
Going green is about remembering that the decisions we make have an impact on the earth on which we live and the other living things that live here and also avoiding pollution and poisons in our environment. In case of living in or making green homes is the ides you want to opt for, take care of the things as mentioned below-
Save Energy:
Reduce energy use as much as you can. Check out whether your home is suited for solar panels or a wind turbine. Fit energy-saving light bulbs. Turn lights off when you leave the room. Analyze your bills which will help you keep an account on energies consumed. Install solar hot waters instead of geysers, heaters, etc. Get your windows open and avoid switching to a/c’s or ceiling fans when possible. Water is used excessively at homes rather one can say it is wasted a lot. Get water-saving products such as Showerhead, dishwasher, washing machine and taps. Take shorter showers. Turning off the taps when not in use is a small thing indeed but matters a lot . Get water-saving device to your tank.16 per cent of water in homes is lost through leaks. Fix leaking pipes and dripping taps. Use plugs in sinks.
Cooking and Eating Green:
Kitchen being the heart of home many things has to start up here. Your early morning tea, Break-fast, lunch, dinner, that’s what can be called family time which refreshes you completely. As said, ‘Green kitchen is a healthy kitchen’ is very much relevant with our lives as we all crave for good health. Starting from what you can do to add to green is you can Steam vegetables with nominal water and the lid on, and not overfilling the kettles. Choose a fan-assisted oven. Manure kitchen leftovers. While buying organic food materials you can’t escape from the heartache which you can go through looking at the price tags of those products and compare them with other food stuff available in market. But you need not overlook at the satisfaction which your same heart will experience recollecting the fact of your donating to the word Green or can say Green world. The experience will be great. Try it!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle:
People today generally wants everything new. This need is a core reason for ecological imbalance. Many people replace something which is torn, broke or deprived of latest technologies easy rather than fixing it. Those people are responsible for the threats caused on environment who have put their economies, technologies, and convenience first—and result is the Earth is paying the price. When people will start minimizing their wants for new and willingly accept reusing and recycling products certainly problems shall come to an end. Choose recyclable furniture for making the space of your homes more lively, beautiful and attractive not because other furniture’s cannot serve that purpose but for the reason of helping and enhancing the concept Green grow and tend to prolong in at least your homes which don’t forget are “Green Homes”!! So just go for furniture made up of reclaimed wood, salvaged lumber that comes from old buildings like factories, Warehouses, barns, and houses. You can even go for natural paints instead of paints consisting petroleum, to your walls of home to be decorated. In order to sparkle your homes instead of using products including synthetic chemicals you can go for your great-grandmothers option of scrubing homes with vinegar and baking soda which indeed do the same job. Use of Castle soaps made with vegetable oil for washing dishes and clothes will add to all this definitely. You can select in precise words ‘Green Lifestyle’ altogether!
Green Lawns:
You have till now come to know about the chemicals usage inside the home’s door, what about when stepping out of the door? Generally creating green garden requires lot of chemicals, fertilizers, huge amount of water and much more which cause ill-effects on environment. But as a matter of fact avoiding of these harmful chemicals also can give you healthy lawn and you can show your care in natural way too. The steps involves enriching the soils with natural fertilizers containing organic materials, infrequent watering (water when really needed) or use of gray water to make gardens green. Gray water is the water that comes from your home’s sinks, showers, washing machines etc. however toilet water is not gray water its block water. You can recycle gray water and the use it for your lawns instead of using fresh, drinkable water for the same as we often do. You have to just check whether using gray water is legal in your area or not.
Your dream house thus can be Green and its definitely not the paint colour what we are talking about. Right? It’s the home of the future providing scope for you and your family to save energy instead of swallowing it, reducing your demand(s) instead of expanding it and being gentle to the earth rather than upsetting it for which it will be thankful to you for the ages to come.
