Some of you may know we're building a new house!! Yes, I know, married to a builder and in our home for 31 years and yes, it's about time :) Anyway, with that said, I've gotten on the green bandwagon of late and one of the first things I have done is started (actually re-started) recycling. Years ago when my sister-in-law, Sylvia, cooked for us we recycled....or I should really say "Sylvia" recycled our stuff for us. When she stopped cooking for us the recycling stopped, too. A couple of weeks ago I decided to get started again and this time the effort is ours. Everyone in the household is getting in to it, even Alexa (one of the gbabies). I also am getting a compost pile started - that will come in handy when it comes time to start landscaping around our new place.
All of that to say I am also talking with my husband/builder about going green in relation to our new home. So, I'm asking all of you for suggestions and tips on what you have done to go green in your lives!
I'll be posting some pictures later of our house site. And, I'm going to be introducing a "give away" as an incentive for the going green tips....so, stay tuned!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Going Green
Posted by Mimi at 1:04 PM
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WHAT??!! Your second day on the blog and you're already having a giveaway! That's awesome!! I can't wait to see all of the great suggestions, and what other people are doing to be green. I also can't wait to see what all you and the builder do with the new house! Love ya!
So glad you've joined! :)
Although this house is wayyy over the top (it's Ted Turner's daughter and son-in-law), this site might give you some ideas as far as green building is concerned: ecomanor.com. You can pretty much get anything you can imagine in "green" form... countertops, cabinets, floors, paint, carpet, bedding. It's wild!
This is another good one: www.usgbc.org.
At our house we recycle nearly everything; we don't buy bottled water; we use paper bags or cloth bags at the grocery store; we have programmable thermostats (upstairs and downstairs); we jam our dishwasher full before washing; we use the new light bulbs; we never dump grease down the sink... you know, just common sense stuff. Our CSA even allows us to recycle the egg cartons each week!
One thing we'll definitely do in our next house is make sure we buy appliances that are Energy Star.
Thanks for the great tips, Meredith! I'll be visiting the sites you mentioned.
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