Environment

Going Green, When to Go, When Not to

January 25, 2012
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Going Green, When to Go, When Not to

Hi, everyone! Another day, another post. This time I’m going to talk about going green, organic, environment friendly, eco-friendly, or anything else you’d like to call it. I want to discuss about feasibility of going green today. To me, going green means working towards saving environment, as well as going paperless among various other things. I got a different perspective a few days ago, I had lunch with a friend who appeared to be quite forlorn. It turned out his wife bought a lot of shampoos, soaps, and other health care products off a website. Let’s just say she spent a considerable amount of money for those stuffs. I asked him, “What’s with all these products that your wife had to spend that much money?” He replied that she was just trying to be healthy by going green. The he asked, “Why should going green be this expensive?”. Now, if I think through what he said, it all made sense. Going green can rob us money! When going green leaks money The truth is going green can be, sometimes, quite pricey because of the following reasons: Conventional products are cheap Let’s state the obvious: we wouldn’t be calling it cheap if we can’t compare it

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25 Everyday Techniques to Save Environment

January 11, 2012
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25 Everyday Techniques to Save Environment

No, I’ll not be asking you to plant trees around your town. And I will not ask you to go back to the stone-age when there was no pollution. I am going to talk about 25 pretty easy-to-follow ways to help mother earth by saving the environment around you. Charity begins at home, you start today, your neighbor starts tomorrow and the whole city starts doing this by year-end, how about that? No, I can’t be that optimistic; but what’s the harm in throwing the idea around? Are you with me?   Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time   Steps to reduce pollution We all pollute the environment we live in, I do, and your dog does too. It’s very much in our control to reduce this pollution. 1. Go paperless, save environment. Sure you can’t stop advertisement leaflets coming in to your mail box (shouldn’t there be an environmental law to ban this practice, or at least, be made it mandatory to use recycled paper?) but, you can control the statements, updates and notices which you get from your financial institutions. Select paperless as the mode of communication. Mostly all of them support this.

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How Use of Alternate Energy Can Save Money

December 16, 2011
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How Use of Alternate Energy Can Save Money

Once in a while, I think about adopting the different forms of alternative energy right here in our home. Though I understand that the cost is quite expensive; solar panels are not cheap at all but, the long-term benefits are far greater. So far, I have only ensured home insulation and bought a few energy star appliances towards my contribution to the green cause. This saga of going green is of one of my colleagues, Cindy, who lives in a single family home. They are slowly transforming their suburban home into a sustainable one: Cindy’s husband is a businessman and owner of a couple of restaurants. They have money to live life they wish for. One of her wishes was to help the environment. They studied, researched and installed solar power modules at their home. Now they are planning even planning for mini wind mill installation. They did study different forms of renewable energy before adopting Solar energy first. As it turns out, they could actually fit a few solar panels in the backyard to power some of the appliances and several solar panels on the roof to sustain for at least 2/3 of the day. She has been using

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10 Tips For Earth Day: Save Some Cents As Well

April 23, 2011
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10 Tips For Earth Day: Save Some Cents As Well

Earth day is celebrated on April 22 each year. This year the day fell on a Friday, which, being a work day did not leave much opportunity to work towards the causes. We still managed to at least something. Here is a list of very small contributions we made towards mother earth. I car pooled my colleague to work, saving his quarter gallon of gas and a lesser carbon dioxide emission. After returning from work, I re planted my potted Bougainvillea on the lawn next to my home, yes they allow residents to grow small plants on landscaped gardens. My Bougainvillea refused to flower for more than one year. May be now it will change its mind and give the area, near our home, a fresh new look. I will watch out for lawn mowers to arrive next week. In case they want to take it out, I will prevent them, got a few neighbors’ support as well. I converted to e-delivery of statements and forms from the only remaining paper mailer, my brokerage account. I wonder why I didn’t convert this one earlier. Was I waiting for earth day? I switched off AC for 2 hours and sat on

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