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Green Products For A Greener Lifestyle
By James J Dixon
Live a greener lifestyle by taking a walk, ride a bike
more than you drive, use less energy with energy efficient
appliances in your home and buy green products. You
can also make efforts to recycle all your recyclable
household products. You may even feed your organic garden
with your own compost made from green waste in your
yard.
There are many more actions you can take to improve
your green credentials and further reduce your carbon
footprint. For example, when you go shopping, you may
need to review your options and consider buying clothes,
groceries and other household items with green credentials.
You can buy green products like clothes with natural
fibers, especially those that have been produced with
organic methods. These clothes have been produced in
ways that are friendly to the environment and our planet.
Petroleum Products Increase Your Carbon Footprint
If you buy clothes made with synthetic fibers, then
you are buying clothes artificially manufactured with
oil to created the synthetic fibers. Products made with
these materials contribute hugely to your carbon footprint.
This occurs when the oil is pumped as crude oil from
the ground, and then the process of refining oil to
make the synthetic fibres in your clothes.
These are artificial clothes and are not produced with
processes friendly to the environment. You can compare
these clothes, to clothes made with natural fibers and
manufactured with organic methods.
Breathing Chemicals From Your Clothes
Petroleum products almost always have the additional
problem of "outgassing" chemicals into the
air, so you'd breathe in these chemicals, when wearing
these artificial clothes.
Natural Clothes Manufactured Closer To Your Home
Natural clothing with natural fibers manufactured with
low emission organic methods are always best and even
better when they are manufactured closer to home, cutting
out the need for transporting household items across
the nation or shipped in containers from overseas. These
methods of transport with their high emissions, make
a huge contribution to your carbon footprint.
Supporting local industries when buying clothes, helps
you dress in a healthier way, and therefore keep those
industries working. Did you know that throw rugs with
a synthetic rubber base will suffer the same "outgassing"
problems as clothing? The alternative is to buy cotton
throw rugs instead.
Companies Exploiting The Green Label
When you are shopping, you may notice green cleaning
products. Many companies try to exploit a "green"
appearance, but when you read the labels on the bottles,
they have as many harmful chemicals as other cleaning
fluids.
You have to research cleaners to confirm if they are
really green and environmentally friendly. When storing
your food, look at throwing away your plastic containers,
which are all produced from petroleum products, and
switch to glass jars for storing food.
Natural Materials Covering Your Furniture
Next, lets look at household furniture. The material
covering mattresses or upholstery of sofas and chairs,
is often made from synthetic materials and will be doing
the same outgassing as all other petroleum products.
You can now buy coverings for mattresses and other
furniture made of natural materials. There is the option
of buying furniture made of wood, certified as sustainable
wood harvested in a responsible manner. This means they
are often plantation timber and not from old growth
forests. Another option is to buy furniture made from
reclaimed wood.
Creating A Healthy Environment With A Green Living Lifestyle
Green living is living in harmony with the environment
and looking for ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
You can a look around your home, to see the ways you
can replace plastic and other products with environmentally
friendly products. You may look at hoe you use power
in your home.
If power to your home comes from burning fossil fuels,
then you can look at using low emission alternatives
like solar power and wind energy. These are some of
the many ways you can change to a greener lifestyle
using green products.
About the Author:
James J Dixon has written a number of articles on green ideas, recycling,
waste management and renewable resources including
Green Camping,
Green Choices For Valentines Day Gifts,
Green Gift Ideas,
Environmental Jobs,
Waste Water,
Disposal Of Plastics.
Look out for new articles as they become available on this site.
Little Known Electric Car Facts.....
How does an electric car affect the environment?
The first thing that needs to be
addressed is that electric cars, depending on how the
fuel cells are created, are not entirely environmentally
friendly. Yes, they do not use gasoline and do not give
off any emissions but some models do have power grids
that use coal.
There are models of power grids
that are being developed that do away with the use of
coal. Even with using coal for the power grids, electric
cars are a vast, vast improvement over gasoline vehicles
and as a result are much better for the
environment.
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