Green living for saving money and saving earth

Environment and living beings depends each other for its existence. Living being needs adequate air, water, food and shelter for living comfortable. Green living is lifestyle which reduces wastage of natural resources such as water, energy and helps to reduce pollution or polluting environment. Green living not only helps to save environment but also helps to save money spend for acquiring them. Here are some tips for saving money and save environment.

• Carry your own shopping bag: Instead of accepting polythene bags to hold the stuff you buy routinely from shops carry your own shopping bag. Your shopping bag can preferably be recyclable (cloth or paper based).

• Use pressure cooker for cooking food: Using pressure cooker saves the LPG consumed & your gas cylinder runs for a longer time. You save money too. Also the nutrition of food is preserved.

• Use natural light to save on electricity bill: In daytime, don't make the room dark and then use the Electric lamps. Instead, use the Sunlight in the daytime. One can reduce the Elec.bill to a great extent.

• Take care of trees and plants in your neighborhood: Don’t be oblivious to trees and plants around you. Adopt a tree in your area and water it regularly.

• Reduce, Re-Use and Re-cycle: In short, Just Remember, Reduce, Re-Use and Re-cycle should be the mantra in each one's life for Green Living.

Simple and useful green tips

Earth gives water, air, food and everything that a living beings needs. It is our duty to give our what it needs. Here are some tips for saving environment

• Say No to Polythene bags: Polythene bags are a complete menace to environment through its whole life cycle. They block air and hence does not let your fruit and vegetables breathe. Then they don't burn and create lots of smoke. The unburnt Polythene bags block sewage pipes too and create havoc like Mumbai floods. In the sea or in river also they block air to the plantations and animals.

• Use natural light to save on electricity bill: In daytime, don't make the room dark and then use the Electric lamps. Instead, use the Sunlight in the daytime. One can reduce the Elec.bill to a great extent.

• Take care of trees and plants in your neighborhood: Don't be oblivious to trees and plants around you. Adopt a tree in your area and water it regularly.

• Reduce, Re-Use And Re-cycle: In short, Just Remember, Reduce, Re-Use And Re-cycle should be the mantra in each one's life for Green Living.

Green Lifestyle for Saving Nature

It is duty of one and all to save environment and bring balance in nature. Never pollute or waste natural resource, avoid generation of waste by recycle, reuse and reduce.

• Healthy ideas - Save water / electricity: Use the water left after rinsing your clothes to wash off the balconies / toilets - save water guys...Use a mud pot to cool water instead of storing it in the refrigerator - will save power and also good for health.
• Plant trees in waste lands: Small pieces of unused land should be used to plant trees. They look beautiful and help bring down the heat.
• Save waste at work - use a mug or glass for your drinks instead of disposable cups, and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
• Car pool to your workplace, it only needs a small adjustment in your schedules. You can socialize and get to know your neighbors and colleagues while driving, reduce your driving stress and save the money spent on fuel and maintenance.
• Exchange your old appliance for newer one which consumes less energy. New appliances are designed to save electricity and meet your requirements. Exchange your old appliances and best utilize the offers. Check for labels and efficiency of appliances.
• Walk, ride a bicycle, use public transportation, or carpool whenever possible. Save environment from getting more pollution

Tips for Teaching Kids for Green Living

Children are very interested to learn new things and what they learn in childhood will develop with them when they grow. Teaching green living tips and importance of green living will help your kids know more about earth and environment. Teaching green living to your kids indirectly helps you to learn more things with them. Here are some tips for teaching your kids green living.

Opportunity to grow their own: Give them some space in your balcony or indoor to grow their own plants. Teach them how to grow plants by watering them regularly, giving adequate soil and sunlight for plants growth.

Books and story: Help them to read books about the value of earth and environment. Tell them moral stories which show importance of plants and avoiding wastage. If possible ask them to briefly describe what they understand by reading the book or listening story.

TV shows: National geographic and animal plants are kids some of favorite channels. This will help them to know more about living beings, plants and environmental. You can also show your children birds and animals in and around your neighborhood.

Green Lifestyle: When teaching your kids importance of green living, one and all members in family must adopt green lifestyle. Kids often watch what their elders do and follow like them. Switch off lights, save water and recycle things. Teach your kids why you are doing. This will help them to follow green living as and when they grow.

When teaching kids about green living, you must also adopt the same. For example, you may teach children not to dispose plastic and you do the same will confuse the children. When teaching your kids for green living, teach them about nature and its importance for living beings. These small lessons will enable your kid to adopt green living in their life.

Green Living in Office

Green living is the secret or mantra of current world which reminds you to save environment and prevent unnecessary wastage. Green living can be easily adopted in homes and office. In office there are number of things which you can do to avoid unnecessary wastage. Here are some tips for you to adopt green living in office.

• One cup in office: Use a mug or glass for your drink and avoid using disposable cups. You can tell your friends in your office the secret of using the mug or glass. Gradually they will also do the same and helps to reduce wastage of disposal cups.
• Carpool: When you going to and from office give lift or accept lift from your colleagues or friends. This helps to save fuel and reduce number of vehicle in parking lot of company. Carpool is successfully practiced in metropolitan cities.
• Use Laptop: Laptop consumes less energy comparing to personal computer or desktop computers. Laptop plays vital role in saving energy and more the employee’s use the laptop more you will get space on your desk.
• Use printer wisely: Thousands of trees are cut daily to make paper, do not waste paper. When you take any photocopy or print, think whether it is important and if it is optional avoid printing and save them in your computer or email id.
• Use step: when you get down from first or second floor to ground floor, use step than using lift. Use step for one or more day to see the difference.
• Stick to it: When adopting green living, your friends or colleagues may make fun but later they will realize the same and adopt green living
  
• Switch off: Switch off fans and lights when you go for break and when you leave your office, switch off computer, printer and other electronics.
• Recycled paper: Recycle papers are easily available nowadays. Remember to use used paper to make rough works and save paper.

Green living is simple and easy if you really want to make your life green living. Knowingly or unknowingly some green living methods may have become part of our life. Do not think green living is something as new, just adopt them when you do your routine work.

Three Steps for Green Living

You may think whether there is any easy method to adopt green living. Here is solution for your frequently asked questions. Three simple methods help you to save environment and make you aware of green living.

• Research: Collect as much as information on green living. There are number of websites and books which help you with tips and guidelines to live green. Just read as many green living tips as you can. Take one whole day or week in making research for green living. Divide them into two category one for easy to adopt and other which needs a little budget or money to execute. You may wonder there are number of things which you can adopt easily.
• Live green: Second step is to adopt some best tips you got from your research and help your family members to do same. You can adopt one month or a year as green living. Each day analyze what you and your family done for green living. Note down these points and stick in green living.
• Community or group: Make a community or group with your friends and neighbors. Adopt catching name for your team or group which closely resembles with green-living or eco-friendly living. Now create awareness to your friends, relatives and other members in your neighborhood.

If you do this, you will notice that you not only adopted green living in your life but you helped your family, friends, relatives and other members in your neighborhood for green-living. They will thank you for teaching them to live by saving their money and you will feel earth is thanking you to create awareness in people to save environment. Don’t you feel this is simple? But to succeed, you need rigid mind that you will not go back from your plan.