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analysis: Green Changes You Can Make to Your Home in 2021: A Guide

January 13, 2021
by Krayton M
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Green Changes You Can Make to Your Home in 2021: A Guide

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  • The year 2020 will always go down as a year of great suffering and monumental change.

    But it'll also go down as a year in which we came to see environmental concerns as one of the most important global priorities - especially after pollution and poor climate controls have been one of the many factors on which excess deaths caused by the coronavirus have been blamed.

    In this piece, we'll look at what you can do in 2021 to make your home greener, shouldering the personal responsibility to be eco-friendly within your home.

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Energy use

Notes:

  • Let’s take a look at your home’s energy usage. Modern homes have an energy rating, which shows how well they’ve been made in order to conserve energy. Other homes will be all at sea – but you’ll have an idea of how well or badly your home fares on the energy scale based on how well your home is insulated and how well it saves money on your heating or cooling bills.
  • Your objective, when it comes to energy use in your home, is to reduce the energy you use to keep your home at a good temperature.
  • You’ll do this by adding insulation. Insulation in your walls and in your attic space will help to mitigate the loss of heat from your home. This will radically reduce the amount of money and energy expended to keep your home warm in the winter months.
  • Meanwhile, double-glazed windows will prevent the same heat loss through the glass windows of your home. Buy and install energy-saving lightbulbs, water-saving faucets, and shower heads to reduce your use of vital resources in your home.
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Supporting Resources (opens new win)
SHOULD YOU: get home energy audit
INFO: home energy audit checklist
INFO: about replacing energy
YOUTUBE: affordable energy efficiency
SHOP: landscaping items (scroll)

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Energy production

Notes:

  • On the other hand, there are ways in which you can reduce your energy bills – and your impact on the environment – simply by changing how you extract energy from the world around you.
  • Most homes are linked up to energy production networks that involve fossil-fueled power. These are now recognized as unsustainable – and that means that it’s the responsibility of local and national government to make changes and individual homeowners, who can install solar panels on their homes.
  • There are clear benefits to making such installations. For one, you’re able to produce your own energy without having to pay ongoing costs – you simply make your installation as a one-off fee and then drastically reduce your energy payments for the future.
  • Custom Solar and Leisure perform such installations and are able to show you how much you’re able to save. Of course, you’ll also be reducing the need for fossil fuel burning in the US, which will have a net positive impact on the environment, too.
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WHAT: rebates available for solar power
INFO: way to generate green energy
YOUTUBE: how geothermal heat pump works

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Materials

Notes:

  • In general, the ethos you should be applying to your home interior should be to buy quality products made from quality materials that you believe will last at least a decade in your home.
  • When you buy flatpack furniture that’s cheap, you do so in the knowledge that it’ll probably end up in a landfill, or going through a complex and expensive process of recycling [same win] – or even just on a bonfire – in the coming years. Quality furniture lasts and doesn’t need replacing.
  • Furthermore, there are certain materials which you should look out for as bad for the environment. Perhaps the most famous of these is mahogany wood. Felling a mahogany tree involves the felling of at least 20 other trees to get to that one tree – something which is, again, unsustainable.
  • There are dozens of other materials that you should try to avoid using in your home as they are understood to negatively impact the environment. See some examples here.
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INFO: how trees make a difference
INFO: ways to save the forest
YOUTUBE: planting or saving trees



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Cleaning products

Notes:

  • You may well be aware that using copious amounts of bleach in your day-to-day cleaning isn’t exactly the best way to treat the environment. When you use chemical-based cleaning agents, they will often wash into rivers and oceans, producing a huge net negative on the environment. The less you’re pouring into our seas and waterways, the better.
  • Of course, the advice here isn’t to reduce your cleaning entirely: it’s to find ways in which you can clean your home without having to use large amounts of cleaning products each week.
  • Perhaps, for instance, you often use bleach to clean your hard floors. How about using a different solution with a mop and brush? Greener cleaning products are easy to find if you search online.
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SERVICES: energy contractors (see below)
HOW TO: identify green cleaning products
INFO: eco-friendly cleaning hacks
PLANNING: green energy home (same win)

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Gardens

Notes:

  • The best feature of a garden for the environment has to be the compost. All of the bio-waste that your home produces – in the form of potato peelings, leftover greens, and banana skins – should be put in a small bucket in your kitchen, ready to transfer each day to your composter.
  • Here, your home’s waste will be broken down in extra-quick time to make the ideal compost for all of your plants and flowers.
  • This process once again prevents you from adding needlessly to landfill. [same win] It’s also a way to get your whole family more interested in gardening and recycling, which are passions that will serve you well in the future.
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INFO: composting food scraps
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YOUTUBE: hydroponics for beginners

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Little habits

Notes:

  • If you’re looking to get the extra mile for the environment, then changing your habits is also a great way to be an eco-friendly homeowner. If you change your windows to add more light to your home, will you need to use electric lighting during daylight hours?
  • Let’s say you’re able to use shutters and curtains in the evening to keep in the heat from the day’s sun, will you need to put on the heating in the evening?
  • FINAL REMARKS

    Experiment with such habits, and be prepared to make changes to your home in order to create the kind of home that requires less energy to be lived in comfortably by your whole family. Again, tips exist online regarding how you can change your habits at home for the good of the environment.

    Use the tips collected above to make changes to your home and garden that’ll be positive for the environment around you for years and decades to come.

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YOUTUBE: sustainable eco-friendly hacks

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