Check out the April/May issue of Natural Health magazine! On page 58, their article “The Cheapskate’s Guide to a Greener Home” features 40 ideas to save money and be kinder to the environment.
This article does a good job of providing easy-to-implement ideas that don’t cost much or which produce dividends down the road. Plenty of magazine articles tend to advise spending lots of money in order to “go green,” which is good for advertisers but counterproductive for the environmental movement as well as your personal balance sheet. So kudos to Natural Health.
Here are five more ideas to counter the idea that you need lots of money to live an environmentally-friendly life.
| If you can’t afford to … | You can always … |
| cover your roof with solar panels, | write your senator or representative and lobby for more sustainable energy produced by public utilities. (This one made it into the article, but I like it so much I’m repeating it here.) |
| shop at Whole Foods, | ask your chain grocery store to stock organic items. |
| buy a Toyota Prius or a Nissan Leaf, but you need a new car, | buy a small, cheap car that gets terrific gas mileage, such as the Smart Fortwo or the Chevy Cruze Eco. |
| pay a landscape company to xeriscape your front yard, | trade skills with a friend or neighbor: while they re-do your yard, you can cook their meals, drive them to work, or watch their kids. |
| vacation at an eco-resort in the South Pacific, | go camping in your closest state park. The act of not taking an airplane makes this a much greener and cheaper option. |
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