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Ways of going green through Alternative energy?

You don’t have to google it up and all that ..But I was just wondering if you can give me examples of Alternative energy ways off the top of your head or good ideas I should include about it–this is for an essay.. Thanks!

Things you can do yourself include:

Getting rid of your lawn in favor of Xeriscape (those are drought tolerant plants). The amount of chemicals a lawn requires, plus if you live in a city the water is treated with chemicals = big environmental loser. A xeriscape garden instead of lawn doesn’t need watering, doesn’t often need fertilizer, no mowing, and often leaves seeds for birds and food for butterflies (migrating & otherwise).

People laugh at this, but use a worm bin to handle your kitchen wastes or in 2nd place use a compost bin. The difference? Food going through a worms body gets chemically and physically changed to be the best natural fertilizer known to man. As long as you bury the food in the bin it won’t smell. Compost is 2nd because it recycles nutrients already existing. See the difference? Worms create nutrients that weren’t there to begin with (turning the stuff into safe natural fertilizer) while compost recycles the nutrients ending up with some nutrients but less than was started.

Eat less meat, the huge energy involved in raising a single cattle is crazy compared to the energy involved in growing fruits/vegetables instead.

On the south side of your house open the shades/blinds in winter in the morning and shut them in the evening (and only when the sun shines). Depending on what kind of windows you have you can get a lot of free sun heat doing that saving your heating system from having to burn fuel. You have to close the curtains/blinds in the evening when dark else you can actually lose more than you gain. The other sides of your house (E,W,N) in winter should be kept sealed up most of the time but I find myself opening up the East blinds/curtains so I can get morning sun.

Get solar of course or at least a new(er) wood stove (a pellet stove less so). Burning wood for heat is environmentally neutral meaning, the wood decaying in the forest releases as much CO2 as when burned so burning it for heat neither adds nor subtracts to the envrionment so it’s considered neutral. Solar is better of course because it’s free, a lot of people don’t choose it because it can’t provide 100% of their needs 100% of the time. That’s just odd, it’s like needing $15 and finding $10 on the ground and passing it by because you need $15. If that doesn’t make sense, neither does skipping solar because it doesn’t provide 100% of your needs 100% of the time.

Good luck

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