How to make your home a green home?

 

How can I make my house more environmentally friendly?

Making your home a green home has now become an important part in the home-building process, doing your part to protect the environment once meant separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin and buying organic greens that you carried home in a reusable tote. But these days, there is a lot more you can do to create a green and healthy home. Let’s know more about how you can make a green home:

• A green home uses solar energy to do many chores, such as solar panels for electricity solar heaters for water and solar cookers for kitchens, which are a few eco-friendly options.
• Incorporating solar into your home is a great way to make your home greener by reducing your carbon footprint and completely slashing your utility bill. Photovoltaic solar panels are getting cheaper and more efficient.
• Choose Native Plants: By adding native plants and trees to your landscape, you allow less water to be used for irrigation. 
• If your home is ventilates naturally then the usage of AC and far will reduce
• For good ventilation install windows of minimum 3.5ft X 3.5ft and if you have cross ventilation it’s much better.
• Your rooftop works as a garden in your green home.
• It will resist heat when the weather is hot it will harvest the rainwater and also it will be your private garden.
• By rainwater harvesting, you are not just doing good for your family but you are also doing good for nature
• Always remember a good green home is built with eco-friendly and locally available material
• Choose-composting, Food waste in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas. Cut your carbon footprint by composting food scraps, except meat, in a backyard composting bin or even a worm bin.

These were some tips on green home planning.