Keeping Your Premises Green
A “green” home is trendy in terms of environmental friendliness. But this is, perhaps, the weakest reason to pursue sustainable, eco-friendly living. A better reason involves the associated health benefits for you, and property value retention from a cleaner home that is less likely to cause health complications. Here we’ll explore tips for such positive outcomes.
- Energy – Geothermal Options as Appropriate, Maximizing Heat
Check out this link on the “geothermal angle”. Basically, the idea is to use the ambient neutral temperature that exists in the ground itself (usually around sixty degrees Fahrenheit) to keep homes warm in winter and cool in summer. The thing is, you might not live in a home with a basement that can be co-opted for geothermal energy capture.
You might be able to change things up, but then again, you might not. However, you can be smarter about energy use in your home. Leave the shower door open a little in the morning so the steam can get out, keeping your home warm without the utility bill being so high.
Make it possible to unhook the vent on your dryer in winter, let the hot air go through the house—you’re using electricity anyway; might as well save on gas-based heat. You get the idea: find natural ways of controlling your home’s environment, cutting down on associated energy bills, and collaterally diminishing their environmental impact.
- Put Plants Everywhere: They Purify the Air Naturally
There’s a lot to recommend decorating with greenery like a ficus plant, or other potted plants and flowers. This makes your home look and feel more “natural”. Also, plants clean the air. Photosynthesis, water, and air are the foods of plants. As they inhale carbon dioxide, they exhale clean oxygen. Plants help keep local atmospheres clean. - Cleanliness and Ventilation Keeps Illness at Bay
When you clean up your home with regularity, you keep dangerous microbial organisms from flourishing. They say cleanliness is next to Godliness. The truth of that comes in personal health and property management.
There’s a theory that New York City politicians leaned into toward the end of the nineties which shows this. It had to do with cracking down on petty crime as a means of scaring off more serious criminals. A similar theory involves shopping carts. Where nobody cares to put shopping carts in the corral at the grocery store, the neighborhood probably has more crime.
Little things can make a huge difference owing to their collateral implication. Well, it’s the same with keeping your home clean. On that note, even the CDC advises properly ventilating your property. If you don’t, airborne microorganisms will remain, and bad air quality will affect your lungs.
A Suburban Home With a Naturalistic Feel
There are a lot of ways to make your suburban home feel like some harmonious cottage perfectly balanced within a jungle atmosphere. Find ways of recapturing the energy you use. Put green things throughout the premises for style and purification. Clean the property regularly, and be sure to vent it. Such moves make homes “greener” and encourage health.