100 ways to make your life greener

100 Ways To Make Your Life Greener

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You need not to change anything in your way of

living for a sexy green living. It is a

misconception that environment friendly

lifestyle needs a lot of sacrifices. It is extremely

wrong. It just needs a little extra care. You don’t

have to spend a dime for a green living. On the

contrary you can save a lot of money by adopt

this way of spending your life that is quite

friendly to nature. Just give a little extra care

and save a lot of money in return. Is it not a

smart deal?

You need not to follow these 100 ways at once

for adopting a green living. Just read them once

and pick one by one to make your life greener,

happier and prosperous. So just spare some

moments and once completely read this post of

above 3000 words. After that you just need to

pick them one by one and that’s all. Isn’t it so

easy? At the end of this post you can also

download the copy of this post in PDF to off and

on read it till you complete adopt a green living.

Consumption and general habits for green

living

1. Consume things as much as you want.

Neither more nor less. Make it your

habit to do sustainable consumption in

your whole life. It is the foundation of

your green living. Right?

2. Get clear estimate of amount of your

carbon emissions. It include the

emissions from the vehicle you use,

from cooking the food that is cooked

for you and all the products you use

that need burning of fossil fuel. You

need to keep that amount always in

your mind while consuming things and

services.

3. Regularly visit this blog. At least thrice a

week to see updates on it. Apply the

tips mentioned in its contents to your

daily life. Please don’t take it as a

promotional tip for green living.

4. Forget about paper editions of

newspapers, magazines, books etc. Get

their electronic copies (e-edition) if

available. While reading their electronic

editions never over-use your laptop or

tablet by consuming more energy

5. Are you fond of reading paper edition

newspaper? It’s fine. But do it on one

condition. Either you should give it to

others to let them avoid buying another

copy or sell the newspaper stuff to any

recycling company.

6. Never leave your TV or Radio switched

on if you move a short time. Just finish

watching TV or listening Radio then

move to the next activity.



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7. Strictly follow the rule of one TV in one

home. Keep your TV set it in common

lounge or any open area to make all

family members easily watch it

together.

8. Calculate how much civic waste you

generate each month. Try to reduce

100 grams each month to eventually

cut 1200 grams or 1.2 kg in one year

and so on.

9. Eat as much as you can. Put food into

your plate as much as you can eat.

Make it your habit to buy fresh

ingredients daily. If buy packet food in

bulk it will add waste generation

10. Never quit traditional food just to eat

the fast food. Latter generates more

waste because most of it is offered in

packaging

11. While eating meat you just imagine the

animal which was slaughtered for your

food. Think about its moving, growling

and other funny moves. Also think

about its kids to create feeling of

sympathy for it. Avoid eating meat and

resort to veggie food. More meat

consumption means more consumption

of natural resources for the animals to

be slaughtered for us.

12. Try various delicious vegetarian foods.

It will never let you miss your favorite

non-veg food.

13. Never forget to ask the way of farming

while buying green food stuff from the

market. Try to buy that stuff which is

grown with organic farming. It is

environment friendly and never hits soil

conditions.

14. Go to those types of restaurants which

use organically grown food stuff like

vegetables and fruits. You can confirm it

from the hotel staff before placing your

order.

15. Enjoy seafood but in moderate

quantity. If demand of seafood grows

there may be overfishing. It could

reduce the marine biodiversity because

fishermen will resort to catch not-fully-

grown fish.

16. Fully enjoy dining out but keep it under

control for green living. Dine out only

on special occasions because food

waste is generated more in restaurants

as compare to homes.

17. Never forget to order packing of the

food you leave in restaurant. Bring it

home to refrigerate and consume it on

any other occasion

18. Always order the waiter to pack your

leftover food in a biodegradable bag.

Your act will reflect your way of green

living.

19. It is better to keep a cloth or jute bag

with you if you go in your personal

vehicle for dining out. You can bring the

packed leftover stuff with you in your

own green bag

20. Never use any kind of plastic or paper

dine-ware. Insist for steel, glass or of

any other reusable stuff.

21. If a little amount of some food is left

while you dine out in hotel, try to finish

it there to avoid extra packing for small

stuff.

22. Always shop in reusable or

biodegradable plastic bags if you don’t

have cloth or paper bag.



23. If there is legislation in your country

banning plastic bag; you need to follow

it and play your role for its

enforcement. If there is no any such law

in your country, raise voice for it

urgently for green living.

Energy conservation for green living

24. Build or make your home as much open

to sunlight as possible. So you can avoid

using energy to lighten your home in

day time.

25. Make construction of your home to get

maximum wind pressure and need not

air conditioner.

26. Put huge distance between your floor

and roof to get minimum heat of sun

inside your home. So you need not to

switch on AC all the time.

27. Must maintain cross ventilation in every

part of your home to be less reliant on

electric appliances for air and cooling.

28. Install energy savers everywhere in

your home instead of heavy bulbs or

tube lights.

29. Keep record of your electricity

consumption bill. You must try to make

a downward graph by reduced

consumption of 20 units each month.

30. If you use more electricity for one

month for any reason, offset this extra

consumption on second and third

months consecutively. So you can

remain in target of yearly energy

consumption.

31. Same rule you should apply to gas

consumption and regularly check how

much gas you use each month. Try to

offset one month’s extra consumption

by consuming lesser in second month.

32. Use water heater if you can’t take bath

with cold water because of extreme

winter.

33. Learn about solar technology. Use solar

electric appliances as much as you can

afford to pay. Check if you have time to

manage them. Then buy them for their

full utilization.

34. Instead of installing solar electric

appliances one by one try to buy one

solar panel to cater all your energy

needs. Install it on your rooftop or in

any open area inside your home. But

before taking this decision get the

consultancy of any solar expert to

implement your plan.

35. At minimum level you can use solar

charge for your laptop, cell phone and

mp3 player apart from using a solar

calculator

36. Avoid installing energy savers in pair at

one place. If you don’t need much

lighting, try to manage things with one

energy saver at one place.



Joint actions for green living

37. Play your role to make government do

maximum legislation for energy

conservation and environmental

protection. Spread this message

through social media and build opinion

for this noble cause.

38. Promote emailing instead of postage

mailing to avoid generating paper

waste.

39. Support government for every green

cause specially for conserving greenery,

parks and forests

40. Keep your city clean and ask everyone

to join you in this cause. Apart from

collective steps, do every step to keep

your city clean.

41. Avoid shifting responsibility of green

care on government alone. Do your role

as much as you can. Also ask others to

do so. But never forget to keep forcing

government to play its role for green

living.

42. Learn about all acts of polluting taking

place in your area. Then write in letter

to editor section of your local

newspaper demanding action against

any type of environmental violation.

43. Propose to your boss to make your

office paperless by computerizing the

entire working

Conserve water with care for green living

44. Keep an eye on how much water you

use for bathing, washing clothes,

washing dishes, cleaning car, mopping

floor etc. Check if you can consume less

water to reduce your daily

consumption. This you should do simply

with sincerity of purpose.

45. Examine how much water you waste

because of wear and tear in your water

supply lines and tapes. Get them repair

to save that part of water which you are

wasting unintentionally.

46. Make it your habit to turn half the tape

on. So you will reduce water

consumption without sacrificing

cleanliness.

47. Use water fast that means bathe fast,

wash hands fast, wash dishes fast etc.

So you will consume less water to

continue your green living.

48. Use high quality tapes and shower

points that do not drip after being

turned off.



49. If you live in any rainy area make full

use of rain water by washing your car

with rain water, cleaning floor and

washing rooftops to save water.

50. Use tapes and showers that have low

speed of flow to avoid wastage of

water.

51. Used water of bathing and washing

hand can be reused for watering the

garden and plants.

52. If you face water shortage in your area,

plant those trees that need less water.

For this purpose ask social forestry

office of your area to let you know less-

water-consuming plants

Love Mother Nature to reflect your green

living

53. Keep planting trees as much as you can

in your whole life. Keep motivating

others to grow trees in their

surroundings and make the air least

affected by air pollution.

54. Promote tree planting culture in your

community. Especially in urban

communities which always complain of

air pollution because of vehicular

emissions. But they rarely play their

role for its mitigation. Make people

realize social forestry is mainly job of

communities. They have to play their

role to transfer this world less affected

by pollution to their coming

generations.

55. Contact your nearby government level

social forestry office and take guidance

to grow fruit trees in your areas. Fruit

trees offer incentive to communities

and they not only happily plant them

but take full care of them to make them

fully grown. Ultimately they will enjoy

their fruits. But don’t plant fruit trees

without the advice of plantation expert.

Otherwise it could fail to grow. People

will be disappointed and will not think

about tree plantation again.

56. Arrange group discussion under the

free service of any social forestry expert

or by counseling of government social

forestry office of your area. It should

aim to teach communities how to plant

and grow saplings and make them fully

grown trees.

57. Maintain cleanliness of your streets and

area and never let civic agency’s

sanitary workers to skip the job of

cleanliness or do it loosely. Always keep

watch at them and make them do their

job dutifully. You need to keep

motivating them to do their best for the

cleanliness of your area.

58. Involve communities to maintain

cleanliness of your residential areas on

cultural occasions like Christmas, Diwali,

Holi, and Eid etc. Create awareness on

cleanliness and motivate others to join

you in this noble cause of green living.



59. If cleanliness workers of the civic

agency of your area don’t do their job

properly, never shy to make their

complaint to their bosses. Make them

straight to do their job dutifully. Never

be courteous to them if they don’t do

their job well.

Reduce waste generation for a lovely green

living

60. Never use paper towels. Use discarded

cloths as rags to clean the floor and

walls.

61. Avoid using bottled water. Buy drinking

water in bulk in reusable huge cans to

give them back to the seller for new

filling.

62. Motivate kids to present gift that are

made of reused things. Also, paste a

message on your gift declaring that it is

eco-friendly.

63. Avoid retiring your clothes earlier. Use

them as long as you can to put

minimum burden of your retired

clothes on land. For this purpose you

can develop habit of buying long-lasting

clothes if that is not objectionable in

your culture.

64. Reuse your retired clothes with your full

creativity to use them for other

purposes like cleaning your vehicle,

floor or huge household items.

65. Keep renewing your old furniture with

new design and textures instead of

discarding it and buying the new one

66. Apply your creativity to reuse your

artificial jewelry and accessories to

avoid throwing it as garbage

67. Develop interest to make each type of

container reusable at home or office

and generate less waste by adopting

this tip

68. Instead of throwing away your old

hangers gift them to any dry cleaner of

relatively poorer area where no

objection is raised if the hangers are

quite old

69. Always use organic products for clothes

and dish washing. Only once you have

to take effort for their purchase. After

that you would be quite familiar with

different brands of organic products.

70. Parents should apply disposable diapers

to their infants in parties and especial

occasions. Normally they should try to

use cloth diapers and keep reusing

them.

71. Avoid frequent use of tissue papers for

hand and face cleaning. Promote the

culture of keeping washed and ironed

handkerchief and change it daily.

72. Use everything when you really need its

use to avoid generating waste

unnecessarily

73. Is it of plastic? This should be your first

question while buying anything and

avoid buying it if it is made of non-

biodegradable plastic.



74. Instead of discarding your old books,

donate them to any charity or sell them

to old book seller.

At office you should equally adopt a green

living

75. Enjoy coffee and tea at office but not in

disposable mugs. If there is no system

of crockery maintenance just bring your

own mug and glass from home and

wash them daily.

76. Use consumable stationery items as less

as you can to generate lesser waste.

77. Never throw used computer accessories

and just exchange them with new one.

In this way old ones will get recycled

and help reduce waste generation.

78. Always use a cartridge in your computer

that can easily be refilled. Never go for

the one-off use cartridges.

79. Always take print out on both sides of

the paper if it is not an important

document.

80. If you need to take print out just for

review, keep the font size as small as

possible to use less papers for more

contents.

81. Take print out where it is must.

Otherwise just share it with others

through networking or emailing.

82. Use Skype or any other online video

calling and conferencing system to

avoid physically visiting other branches

or head office. In this way you will save

fuel that you otherwise have to use in

your conveyance.

83. For team visit must go collectively

instead of all team members

individually going to visit in their

personal cars.

84. Introduce less noisy office equipment to

make your workplace free from noise

pollution.

On the road remain committed to green

living

85. Never throw anything on road while

moving in a car. Keep it with you and

put it into a dustbin after getting down

from the car.

86. Move a little earlier to reach your

destination on time and avoid speeding

that emits more smoke.

87. Always use green fuel in your vehicle

and spare sometime to keep filling it

while travelling.

88. While on a long journey stop at small

towns on your way to eat food, snacks.



Avoid eating packed food in your

vehicle to eventually generate waste of

empty food packets.

89. Keep your vehicle regularly tune-up.

Get it fully checked before start of your

journey.

90. Avoid short-cuts to create congestion

which may increase vehicular

emissions. So always adopt highways

for travelling.

91. For any type of long journey all over the

world public transportation is easily

available. You just need to get its info

and make booking to make your

journey comfortable.

92. Make a limit of distance – half or

quarter kilometer - for which you must

walk and avoid using vehicle. So you

take double benefit of improving your

health and avoid adding vehicular

emission.

93. If you live in a sparse area, use bicycle

to cover medium distances of one

kilometer to go somewhere.

94. Keep silencer of your vehicle in good

condition to make it emit less smoke

and noise.

Keep doing for green living

95. If you love non-vegetarian food, it’s

fine. But try several vegetarian dishes

that are tastier than non-veg. Just try

once and if you like make them part of

your menu.

96. More the population, higher the

pollution because of load of polluting

activities by humans. So adopt birth

control methods if it is not against your

religious beliefs.

97. Keep planting trees in your area.

Someone destroy them or they grow

stronger, your job is to just keep

planting and taking care of them as

much as you can.

98. Make a go green club in your residential

area to convince others adopt green

living

99. Give vote to those candidates in all

types of polls who promise for green

living

100. Keep visiting this blog to get

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