Can go green really save money? Maybe you are not convinced of that. If so, that would be totally understandable. Certainly, there are a number of consumer items promoted under the rubric "green living" that cost more than items "non green" comparable. Of course, there's enough consumers who are willing to pay a premium for products and services labeled as "green" that marketers can make a good living selling various items this way.
But you don't have to follow this crowd. Indeed, that creates a green can actually save money if you go about it the right way.
My focus is really on how consumers can save money as they go green.And it makes sense to create your lifestyle green this way. reduce energy consumption, water conservation, driving your car less and purchase of certain second-hand items are all actions that reduce resource consumption. Why should that cost you more?
In fact, it doesn't. Following the three RS-"reduce reuse and recycling" is the best recipe for saving the money you go green.
Here are 3 tips to live this lifestyle greener that are guaranteed to save money.
1) replace all incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs). Using CFLs only a quarter of an incandescent energy and last up to 10 times more.It is easy to understand why. incandescent convert only about 3 to 5% of the energy they consume in light. the rest is dissipated as heat. Incandescent bulbs are essentially little that happen heaters generate some light. As CFLs generate less heat, use them will reduce their cost of cooling in summer. Another advantage of CFLs is as follows: Although the older version of CFLs didn't work with dimmers, switches are the latest versions.
2)Buy power strips off electronics when they are not in use. Most people probably do not remember the days when you traded on a television set and then waited 30 to 60 seconds to warm up and connect. Nowadays, we have the instant-on feature, both part of our modern world, but that costs us in so called "Vampire" power. Why? Because to deliver the immediate gratification of instant-on, the device (TV, radio, computer, etc.) must remain in a constantly warmed and continuously, should take a bit of energy to do this.Electronics have become so pervasive that this Vampire power draw is estimated to account for about 10 percent of residential energy consumption in the United States.Connecting your electronics into a power strip that can be connected and disconnected, you can cut the power completely, saving all this energy drain. Besides televisions and VCRs, computers and printers must be disconnected during the night or when you are not using them for a long period of time.
3) shop at garage sales.Buy second-hand means they get reused, not sent for landfill and sometimes garage sales offer items that have never been used, but simply unwanted.And the value for the money you get at a garage sale is unbeatable.Often you will buy an article of clothing for no more than what the sales tax would have been if you bought the new item in a store.
These three simple steps are guaranteed to make your lifestyle more green costing less, not more.
