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Making Green Choices in Home Furnishings

13.07.2013 No Comments

When furnishing your home, it truly is less difficult than you think to produce greener, far more eco-friendly choices. One among the most wasteful elements of acquiring furnishings is whenever they come from a huge selection of even thousands of miles away. When your sofa has traveled 1200 miles from your factory to obtain for you, even though the sofa is manufactured from sustainable or recycled materials, that makes it a under green choice. Consider to order from factories and merchants which might be close to you and ask the salesperson exactly where the sofa was manufactured. If whatsoever achievable, produce a choice to order local.

Whether it truly is your drapes, curtains, carpeting, furniture coverings or other cloth or textile, you’ll be able to make a Green Choice by selecting a fabric that’s organic or sustainable. Fantastic choices consist of linen, wool, silk, cotton or hemp. Should you be redoing your kitchen, consider choosing cabinetry that is certainly manufactured from wood which is from sustainable forests, use recycled components and even reclaimed woods.

When staining wood or painting your walls, you’ll be able to pick finishes that are eco-friendly and non-toxic. Appear for a label or designation within the can that the item is lower in VOC’s, which stands for volatile natural compounds. On the very least, you’ll desire to select finishes that contain no formaldehyde.

When picking flooring, there are numerous eco-friendly prospects. For carpeting, consider carpeting that is created from at the very least some recycled fibers or that incorporate handful of chemical compounds. Wise choices in carpet materials include jute, sisal, wool or bamboo. For tile floors, consider recycled tiles, reclaimed tiles or unglazed tiles.
There’s even glass tiles made from recycled drink glasses accessible, when picking furnishings, consider buying second hand, vintage or antique furniture. These items may possibly be cheaper than new furnishings, might add further elegance and character for your home, and might also be a terrific investment. You can also buy older sofas, chairs and couches after which recover them along with your preferred fabric.

Jared Quips

It sure is high time we all consider switching to greener and more earth-friendly alternatives as much as we can. Not only will they be safer as they come with less or no harmful chemicals that may harm little kids like me, but we would also be doing Mother Nature a great favor when we stop patronizing those products that have ingredients that are harmful to the environment.

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playing in the greens before my swimming lessons

12.06.2012 3 Comments

one of the things we need to do before starting our swimming class is to stretch to get the muscles in condition. + there is a green, grassy patch where we do our stretching each day. apart from stretching, i also enjoy walking around this area of the resort where everything around me seems green ~ from the grass to the vines crawling on the wall + the ceilings, too. it was rather relaxing + enjoyable staying in this spot + mum kinda likes it, too! 🙂

here are a few of the photos mum took one time i was playing at this green area. if she can, she would’ve probably preferred to have something similar like this at home or she’d probably want to frequent a place something similar. she said one of the best things for parents to do is exposing little children to nature + teaching them how to save it at an earlier age, that way they’d develop a certain love + appreciation for nature even at an early age,+ hopefully when it is their time, they’d lend a hand in saving the environment + ultimately, our planet. i know i will! 😉

it has been awhile since i’ve been to the resort + i am missing it a lot, as well as coach abbey + the rest of the coaches. mum said she will see if i can enroll for another round of lessons next month, otherwise i will have to wait until next summer so i can practice on my swimming again. hopefully it will be sooner, i cannot wait to get back into the water again 🙂

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it’s not easy being green…says who?

30.09.2010 No Comments

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long before talks on global warming and recycling were everywhere, my first valuable lessons on loving mother nature came from my parents. early on in life we were taught the simplest ways to help save the environment like turning off the faucet when not in use, using basin when we do our “pag-uurong” (that’s washing the dishes), keeping the opening of the refrigerator door to a minimum, cleaning the surrounding and not being a litterbug and unplugging electric appliances when not in use. later on in life, i think the habit was stuck on me and it has become a way of living. while still working, you will find me carrying my thermos around the office everyday, saves loads on coffee cartons and plastic cups! i would also always have spoon and fork and a set of microwavable stashed in my locker so i won’t have to use plastic come eating time. i would refuse the plastic utensils and tissues when having takeouts or takeaways. i would even bring home the microwaveable my friends would just otherwise throw away, i recycle them at home and there are just numerous ways to reuse them.

old habits die hard and now that i am a mum myself, i still carry on with what my parents taught me and more, i segregate the garbage, keep what’s recyclable in a different container (mineral water bottles, milk cans, paper and card boards, plastic caps) and sell it to the neighborhood junk shop, i even joined world wildlife fund . hopefully i will be able to pass this on to my son so he will be a nature-loving, earth-friendly guy when he grows up!

for mother earth, a simple act of kindness can go a long way and every little thing we do counts. today you can start by turning your blog carbon neutral, and then try to do one good deed for mother earth each day. if you run out of ideas check out my green tips on the side, it will give you loads of suggestions to help you turn green, (the other day i just found out i can use milk cartons as alternative pots for plants, so from now on i will never be throwing my nestle milk tetra), or better yet get you own green tips here for your blog. at the end of the month you would’ve done 30 good deeds and if all of us will start maybe one day our planet will heal and hopefully we will sure have a better planet for our children and the generations to come next.

cheers to a healthier mother earth!