Home can be more green

In this mechanical world, I have a dream to have a green home. Is it impossible? Where I can get powered by sun, I can have partial supply of water from rain, I can have vegetables from my garden, fresh air for breathing and I can produce fertilizer from my wastage of foods.

No its not completely impossible, we may can’t do everything like my dream but we can do so many things to change our sweet home to be more sweet, environment friendly and green.

Just few mechanism and steps can change huge to our home environment.

1. Transform the Incandescent light to LED or CFL Light

We can save huge electricity consumption by transforming old Incandescent bulbs to LED (Light Emitting Diodes) or CFL (Compact Fluorescents) bulb. Near 60-80% electricity can be saving by this. These lights have more benefits for us. They generated fewer warm then the incandescent bulb more than 80%. So it will ensure our cool weather inside the room. A small compression between these bulbs can give us clear view. http://www.designrecycleinc.com/led%20comp%20chart.html

Energy Efficiency & Energy Costs	Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)	Incandescent Light Bulbs	Compact Fluorescents (CFLs)
Life Span (average)	50,000 hours	1,200 hours	8,000 hours
Watts of electricity used	6 - 8 watts	60 watts	13-15 watts

2. Solar energy

We can easily set solar panel in our roof and can save fuel made electricity as well as we can save money in a long run. Solar energy will create the environment friendly atmosphere at our home without noise and hazard. Maintenance is very easy and cheaper.  It will give you effective control on your energy consumption.

3. Preserve rain drops

In the rainy season we can easily preserve the rain drops for our daily cloth wash and for our house hold use. We have to setup a tank and some filter to collect the pure water from the sky. Rain water can save our supplied water by pipe. It will save our money and energy. http://preservethefox.org/water_harvesting.htm

4. Plants can provide more options

Pure oxygen is one of the vital needs for us. We can easily ensure limited pure air by doing some little changes at home. We have to keep some plants in the room. But before buy any plants we have to check, which plants need little water and sun light to live. And there are some plants on nursery which don’t need extra care. These plants can bring changes in interior of the home as well as provide us fresh oxygen.

5. Fertilizers at home

Though we have some trees at our home, we can produce fertilizer with wastage foods and vegetables. We have to setup a compost bin to preserved these wastage and create fertilizer for our own plants.

 6. Drop your shoes at door

Dust, toxins and pollutants come to our home thru the window and shoes. We can’t close the window all the time. But we can easily drop our shoes near to door. And limit the excess of dust and toxin with other unhealthy things by dropping shoes at the door.

7. Maintaining household equipment

Last one is we have to maintain properly our electronics equipment and water appliance to minimize the loss of energy and water. Have to be cautious when we go for purchasing energy and water efficiency equipment’s. It’s may take some extra money from your pocket but will serve you more in long run.

Green home can save your money and time in your daily life and provide you more comfort and extra value of life.