What are things that people are doing to "GO GREEN"?

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Answer 1

Use chemical free or natural cleaning products. They are healthier for you and the environment. If you need a great company that makes them let me know.

Answer 2

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live completely, 100% “off of the grid and are completely self sufficient”

The house is built utilizing natures natural elements, in the shape of an octagon with 8ft wide arch doors on every wall to catch every angle of wind (typical 4 sided homes have half the chance as one with 8 sides. A circle being the most efficient design). Woodburning stoves, solar chimney, solar AC, solar heating, solar water heating (pool and home), solar stove, solar power, wind power, hydrogen powered back up generator, hydrogen back up water heater, hydrogen stove, 2 hydrogen powered trucks, 1 EV (electric vehicle) and satellite internet.

We also built many green small cabins on the ranch that we offer to family, friends and our on-site off-grid workshop guests, including one straw bale, one papercrete, earth bag and adobe, one cob and cordwood, one underground and rammed earth, one log and post and beam and one rock. Each one actually started as a test for what the main house would be and were later finished and turned into guest cabins. I later wrote a guide on how to build with alternative materials using alternative methods for next to nothing.

We raise meat and milk goats, chickens for meat and eggs, ducks for meat and eggs, trap havilina (wild boar pig), rabbit, quail. brew our own beer from home grown products, preserve our fruits, vegetables, etc. smoke and jerky the meat, make our own soap, cheese.

There are no utility lines, no water lines, no roads, tv, cell service, etc. on our ranch. EVERYTHING needed is produced here. All electricity comes from 27 solar panels, 2 main wind gens and a back hydrogen generator if needed (typically we can last 9 days with all luxuries of sunless windless weather, hasn't happened yet). Water is caught and storaged from the rain. Hot water is made with solar batch water heaters with an on-demand hydrogen hot water heater as backup. Even our vehicles use alternative energy (2 hydrogen trucks, 1 EV electric vehicle converted). Because of this we have no bills, no debt and no mortgage.

Anyone interested can check it out at..

www agua-luna com

I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

my home has all the comforts listed above plus some. we live very comfortable without effecting the environment. just saying that tol et you know it's possible. you may not want to go as extreme as me and my family but anywhere in between is something.

Without getting to in depth here, Using alternative fuels in your vehicles and harnessing your own electricity from the sun, water, earth and wind are the 2 are key elements in making a green transition and erasing your carbon footprint.

here's a calculator to find out how much of a green impact your making (carbon footprint)

http://www.conservation.org/act/live_gre...

if you'd like to make your next step feel free to contact me personally at www agua-luna com

I've been installing home made Solar panels. Solar stoves, Solar batch and inline hot water heaters. Solar radiant heating. Solar home heating and AC, along with home made wind gens and other alternative energy items for the last 3 years.

You can even make the above projects on site with simple parts from the local hardware stores or auto stores or junk yards. For more info check out some guides I wrote / compiled on how to DIY www agua-luna com

Again these projects can be accomplished anywhere by anyone.

if you absolutely can't do anything in your home at least you can put alternative fuels in your car. most major automotive manufacturers (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, etc) recommend the use of bio fuels, and nearly every car manufacturer in the world approves ethanol blends in their warranty coverage.

In fact your probably even driving an ethanol car and didn't even know it.

The trick is finding fuel.

I've been producing biofuel for about 3 years now, it's not extremely difficult. Basically you need general household ingredients, a processor (or still for ethanol) and some used oil. Blend it, let separate, screen and use. I complied a guide a while back to help walk you threw the process step by step, just email me or check out..

www agua-luna com

as for recyling the best way i've found without taking money from your won pocket is to join a free freecycle group in your area or visit the habitat for humanity.

If you’d like help in making your self sufficient steps, feel free to contact me directly. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com

on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others “help the environment”.

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

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Answer 3

Well my family is reclying paper, plastic and aluminum. We are also using any Bio-friendly cleaner, My little brother and sister are cloth-diapered because a disposable diaper I think can take over 500 years to bio-degrate!

Answer 4

Using http://biogoogle.net

This site is an eco friendly imitation of Google.

Answer 5

I bought a computer from GreenStar PCs. Their computers work great and contain no lead or mercury unlike other computers. They also use about 1/3 of the energy so I save tons of money on my energy bill. The best thing about the is that they come with a 2 ton carbon offset, which means that when I bought my computer they planted trees to soak up the co2 it uses. You should check them out. Its www.greenstarpcs.com

Answer 6

Getting an alternative fuel vehicle, installing solar panels for your house, using energy star appliances, drying your laundry on a clothing line instead of in the dryer, conserving water by making your shower 5 minutes shorter, using canvas grocery bags instead of paper or plastic, keeping your tires inflated (better fuel mileage), unplugging your electronics when they are not being used, turning off the lights, washing your clothes in cold water only, wrapping your water heater in an insulating blanket, recycling, composting, being vegetarian, using recycled paper products including paper towels and toilet paper, insulating your windows, and contacting your representatives to encourage them to support environmental laws being passed to protect the environment.

Answer 7

turning off lights when you're not using them, CFL light bulbs, turning off faucets when not in use, solar panels

Answer 8

Going Green isn't always about doing big things, its the little things each day that helps it out.

Some ideas include:

Turning off the water when you brush your teeth, closing the refrigerator, taking short baths, turning off lights when you leave a room, recycling, not using plastic store bags (bring your own to stores), florescent light bulbs. Pretty much anything that will conserve water and energy are great ways.

Answer 9

I am going to suggest that Al Gore paint his twenty room, eight bath home in Nashville Tennessee green.  Ditto for his other two homes.  Ditto for Hollywood celebrity global warming alarmists that are living large.