Easy Ways To Improve Your Home’s Environmental Impact
Easy Ways To Improve Your Home’s Environmental Impact
Here are four of the easiest ways to improve your home’s environmental impact.
Written by Liz Bayardelle, PhD | See Comments | Updated 08/23/2021
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Easy Ways To Improve Your Home’s Environmental Impact
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It’s no secret that the environment is in peril. While humans are working hard to reduce our impact on the planet, it is impossible to escape the fact that the world is warming up, and the emissions created by humans are contributing to the process. This is something that everyone needs to work on to make a difference, and your home can be a great place to start when you want to make a difference for yourself. To help you out with this, this article will be exploring four of the easiest ways to improve your home’s environmental impact.
Install Solar Panels
Generating renewable energy has been one of the main targets of countries across the world for many years. This process can take a long time on a wide scale, but normal people can also make a difference with their own property. Installing solar panels on the outside of your home can be a great way to start making your own power that won’t release any emissions. This can be costly at first, but the money you spend on it will ultimately come back to you in reduced bills and the power that you can sell.
Use Low-Flow Flushes
Water is a resource that will become increasingly rare in the future, with the reserves of water beneath the Earth’s crust slowly dwindling, and more and more water being left unusable. This is something that you can work against, and it all starts with your toilet. Low-flow flushes can be installed in most toilets with ease, providing you with a simple mechanism that will reduce the water used by your household by a huge degree.
Recycle Waste
It’s impossible to entirely avoid producing waste with your house, but this is something that you can work on using methods like recycling. Most modern communities have access to recycling services that are free to use. All you need to do is put work into sorting your waste, putting it out each week for your collection service to deal with. Of course, though, there are some materials that need to be paid for to be recycled, and this means that you will need to spend a little extra if you want to recycle as much of your waste as possible.
Embrace Gardening
Your garden is a great place to look when you’re trying to find ways to reduce your home’s environmental impact. While plants can’t reduce your power usage, they can soak up a lot of the emissions you create, especially when it comes to carbon dioxide. Planting trees, shrubs, and other long-lasting plants can turn your garden into a greenhouse gas storage system, all while making the space look and feel great in the process.
As you can see, there are loads of easy ways to reduce your environmental impact when you have the time and energy to put effort into maintaining your home. Many people find this process easier than they expect, with countless options available to those who want to improve the planet.
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Liz (or Dr. Mommy, as her toddler started calling her after learning what a PhD was) is the happily sleep-deprived mom of a toddler (and professional raccoon noise impersonator), a sparkle-clad kidnado, a teenage stepdaughter, 200 cumulative pounds of dog, and herd of dustbunnies (if daily vacuuming doesn't occur). During nights and naptimes, she uses her PhD in business psychology as an author, speaker, and consultant. She also serves as an executive and principal for three companies, two of which she co-founded with her very patient (and equally exhausted) husband.