Tips For Sustainable Living

Tips for Sustainable Living.

- Biimla Arya

The thing I love most about practicing good green habits? Nine times out of ten, they're also the more frugal option. Being environmentally friendly is also good economics—in our home and budget. and with the earth. There are lots of little things we can do in our homes to play our small part in reducing landfill waste, cleaning the air, and preserving the natural landscape. But we double our efforts when we get our kids involved, helping them understand the why to our what.

Being eco-wise is about celebrating creation, being good stewards with what we're given, and passing on those values to the next generation. Environment-friendly ways are easy to fallows try them out.

Buy a stainless steel water bottle and refill it with your own water. It's much more earth-friendly than always buying water in plastic bottles and throwing them away. I take mine with me wherever I go!

Turn out the lights when you leave the house, and having a programmable thermostat is wonderful.

Leave your car at home, and walk/bike/take public transit wherever you can. I'm an avid walker, and love the way it keeps me in motion, while not creating more pollution!

I have three elementary school aged children who grow out of clothing quickly but not all of it is in good enough condition to be reborn. Rather than trash the clothing that cannot be reborn, I take off all the buttons working zippers, and any other embellishments that can be up, crafted and re-use in my crocheting and knitting projects.