These top 10 green resources will help you choose from many ways to go green, save money, and help your health and happiness. Each link opens a new window so that you can easily return to this page.

The below photos are of the garbage pit at Norcal Waste Systems, Inc. in one of their locations in San Francisco, CA. This comes from when we decide to put trash in our black bin, recycling items in our blue bin, or compostables in our green bin. The trash from the black bin gets dumped by trucks into this garbage pit, mashed down by a big machine that drives around on it, and then trucked out to a landfill facility. There is no sorting of the garbage pit.

Here are some great quick tips you can use to not only make some parts of your home green, but also very importantly save money and help maintain great health.

Look around your house and see if you have any plastic or various vinyl items that may be leaking vapors into your house. As your house heats up during the day, the warmer it gets the more chemicals can start dissolving into the air. It is a good idea to open windows when it gets hot to air out the house. This is a cheap way to not only cool the house and save money, but also help to ensure your breathing clean air. For the air, you can also have indoor plants to help purify the air and relax you.

Make sure that your appliances are energy efficient. Some older appliances can suck up a lot of power.

Go green in your living room with these tips. Learn more about going green and saving money in this book.

1. Keep your chimney damper closed to save energy
2. Recycle your junk mail
3. Close your window curtains and shades for additional home insulation
4. Unplug your TV when it is not in use to save 10-15 % of of your TV energy
5. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent light bulbs
6. Use cardboard matches instead of a lighter to light your fire. Cardboard matches come from recycled paper.
   
   
   
   
   

Here are some great ways to go green in your bathroom at home.

• Take a shorter shower to save water and money
• Turn off your tap water while you are brushing your teeth
• Skip using a plastic liner in your shower as the vinyl not good for us, plus it is not good for the landfills
• Plug the drain in the bathtub before turning on the bath to save gallons of water
• Put a flourescent light in your bathroom light fixture

Learn from the book about going green and saving money.