Green Every Room of Your House

There are tons of ways to green all the rooms of your home. However, if you want to start small that’s totally fine. You can take one useful green task and incorporate it into each area of your home. All of these tasks will add up to a larger whole without you feeling overwhelmed.

In the nursery – paint the walls with non-toxic, low VOC baby safe paints.

In the bathroom – Quit buying new plastic containers of soap. Get a reusable, refillable hand soap pump and refill it with bulk soap when necessary.

In the dining room – Stop with the paper already. Buy cloth napkins. They feel better, save money, and is a super tiny way to get started with green living.

In the home office – Electronics left plugged in are still consuming energy and wasting money. Buy a good power strip, plug all your gear into it, then you’ve just got one thing to unplug when you leave the room.

In the kitchen - Use your microwave. It cuts down on energy use and saves you money and time.

In the bedrooms – Buy organic sheets. The chemicals in conventional cotton harm your body and the planet. The more you hang around conventional cotton the worse it is for your health. When you consider how much time you spend in bed, you’ll see that organic sheets offer a huge green bang for the bucks in the bedroom.

In the living room – Bring in some plants to improve your air quality.

In the laundry room – Switch to a biodegradable, non-toxic laundry detergent. I like Vaska and Biokleen detergent best.

In the garage – Set up a dedicated shoe area. Because of the rampant use of pesticides in outdoor lawns along with all the daily pollutants we run into (car exhaust, gunk in the streets, toxic cleaners in the workplace) shoes should be a no no in the house. We drag all these chemicals in on our shoes so leave them in the garage or by the front door when you get home.

In the pantry and fridge – Make sure you’re buying at least some organic food. The best to buy are the Dirty Dozen.

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