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Many people are convinced that living a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle is a large financial outlay and more trouble than it is worth. Although it is common to pay far too much in order to make your house eco-friendly, you can still make a considerable upgrade with a number of very affordable measures which are simple to apply. Let’s look at several simple modifications to help you make your home eco-friendly and pitch in to enhance the lot of future generations.

Though any of the tips on this particular list could have a great outcome if applied correctly, one of the easier ways to go is to control the utilization of heating units plus air conditioning units. Employing this method can be difficult and less than enjoyable based on how severe the climate happens to be in particular parts of the year, yet it does often have an incredible effect. Not only are you going to save electrical power and lower the environmental effects of your house, it can save you tons of money too.

Wearing jumpers and warm clothing in winter means you hopefully won’t need to utilize the airconditioner as much as you may do at present. In summer, try to conserve power by keeping curtains and blinds drawn to stop the sun from beating into your house and warming it up. Laundering your clothing using bio-degradable soaps and powders and utilizing lower temperature in your washing machine will save money and definitely help the environment.

When your clothing is cleaned, rather than putting your clothes in the clothes dryer and using even more energy, you can utilize the sunlight and a nice breeze to deal with this. The sun is the most efficient sanitiser of your clothing. Not only does direct sunlight kill germs it also can remove stains in your clothing as well. It definitely makes sense to hang your clothing in the sun and let the elements do the rest. Do what your parents and grandparents before you did, hang your washing on the line.

Once you have dealt with your laundry and basic heating and cooling issues, you may want to consider high efficiency lighting options. You might at some point want to exchange your home appliances with power efficient appliances and gadgets, but starting with long lasting light bulbs is a wonderful place to start.

Lastly, try to take shorter showers. Of course, we all love a hot bath from time to time but if we treat a hot bath as a luxury and instead took 3 minute showers with luke warm water, it will have an incredible domino effect in that less water will be used and less power.

If we all make a concerted effort using the tips above, our footprints will be surprisingly less and we will definitely make a difference to our fragile planet.