28 Aug 09 Environmentally Friendly Stain Removers

Normal household cleaners should be avoided at all costs. For the most part they are harmful to your health and are harmful to the environment when carelessly thrown away, or put down the drain. Most household cleaners contain chemicals that can cause asthma, kidney and liver problems, heart complications, and possible even raise your risk of developing cancer. So really, it’s in your best interest for your health, and for your wallet, to try a few more environmentally friendly stain cleaning solutions. They work just as well, and cost less, and leave the earth and you feeling healthier.

So to outline a few of the more common stain scenarios:

-For stains from spilled wines, or juices, or even berries, something as simple as boiling hot water will do the trick. Make sure you get to the stain quickly, and then simply put the stained item in a sink and pour boiling hot water over the affected area. You should see the stain clear up immediately, leaving you dark stain free. For areas like carpeting, try just using club soda and a towel to blot the juice out. On carpeting it will take some work, but a little patience and you’ll have the stain up in no time at all.

-For an unfortunate rust stain, try combining a mixture of salt and lemon juice. Slowly massage the mixture into the stain, and then rinse. You may need to repeat a few times, but you should see the stain fade until it’s gone completely.

-Ink stains can be an absolute pain, whether just a small swipe accidentally from the pen you’d been using, or a full blown ink spill. The best solution to combat an ink stain is to just soak the affected item in milk. Sometimes this soaking process can take a long time, but keep at it, and eventually the milk will do the trick.

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03 Aug 09 Go Green And Save Energy

You may not realize, but an overwhelming percentage of the energy that you consume in the household comes from waste. Whether it be just not handling energy usage sparingly, or not even realizing the things that you could be changing in your lifestyle to make a positive difference on the amount of resources that you are consuming. Changing your electricity usage habits is not only a very positive move for the environment, but also will help you to save money on that electrical bill. You’d actually probably be very surprised at the difference that being more environmentally friendly makes on your wallet, as most changes will leave you being a more green person, with more green in your wallet.

A few tips to be better about your energy usage include:

-Each degree you turn down your thermostat in the winter, or up in the summer, saves around 3% of your overall heating/cooling bill.

-Using cold water instead of hot water to wash your clothes is another good option to save a ton of energy. Using cold water saves 80-70% of the power that you use on your washing machine. Not only is this a fantastic energy saver, but also cold water tends to protect your clothing’s original color better than warm/hot water does in the long run.

-Every home has a computer now, but desktop PC’s are huge power wasters, regardless of the way that you arrange your settings to save energy. Consider switching to a laptop. As long as you put in the time and effort, you can find a laptop that can do everything that you would use your desktop for, and you’ll use only about 1/3 as much power as a desktop PC.

-Finally, consider something as simple as just keeping your tires inflated to the proper extent. Ensuring your tires are properly inflated means that you can save upwards of 5% on your usual gas mileage. Keep in mind that every gallon of extra gas that you can keep from using, you can save a tone of carbon emissions from being spewed into the air, polluting the atmosphere, and ever living animal’s lungs.

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03 Jul 09 Tips To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The word carbon footprint gets thrown around a lot these days, amid concerns about the effect mankind is having on the environment. But what is a carbon footprint exactly? Well to put it simply, it’s the measure of the amount of carbon dioxide that gets put into the atmosphere as you go about your daily life. Basically everything involving technology emits harmful greenhouse gases like these, as almost everything in our society today involves travel, and every bit of that travel on gas powered vehicles does damage to the environment. But there are some easy ways that you can adjust your life and begin to make a difference, and most importantly reduce the carbon footprint you are stamping on our atmosphere.

Firstly you can do something as simple as turning your thermostat to be a few degrees colder in the winter, and a few degrees warmer in the summer. This won’t affect you in a negative way, as it will be a slight temperature change, but the difference to how much energy you’ll be using up will really add up in the long run. This reduces your carbon footprint, and saves you money in the long run.

Use a dishwasher whenever possible to wash your dishes, as these use less hot water than washing dishes by hand, on average. Hot water is bad, because it exhausts energy and causes more carbon emissions to be released into the environment. So you should shy away from using too much all the time. This means taking shorter showers, and washing your clothes in cold water. Or in fact take a cold shower every once in a while. Studies suggest that cold showers are better for your health, as they strengthen your immune system, and help increase circulation and blood flow throughout your body.

Turn off your lights when you leave a room, even if you’re only going to be gone for a short period of time, as this will conserve more energy than you think. Use a microwave instead of your stove whenever possible, as a microwave uses far less energy than your stove. And just in general follow guidelines like these for using less energy. It’s great for the environment, and will also save you money in the long run.

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