Your “Green” Columbus Kitchen Could Save You $750!
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Douglas Garbe, an associate with Real Living Real Estate Solutions (in Orlando Florida) shared Green Kitchen 101 on ActiveRain, a real estate network.
Douglas is committed to the environment and conservation. His “Green Kitchen 101″ post is about how being “Green” around the house can save you green.
“let us start with the kitchen:
- Buy a water filtration system. Say no to expensive bottled water.
- Cloth napkins instead of paper… can be used several times before washing.
- Use less single-serve or single-use products… these products are more than 50% packaging.
- buy in bulk. Avoid useless packaging.
- Always cover your pots when cooking. It speeds up the process and saves energy.
- Let foods cool before putting them in the refrigerator, so as not to raise internal temperature.
If followed through for a whole year, the above six tips save the average home around $750.00 a year”
I am not sure I can do that last one… I am afraid of germs. I know people used to wait to put food in the refrigerator and then it was considered safer healthwise to put still hot food directly in the refrigerator.
Douglas’s source: It’s easy being green, by Crissy Trask. Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006
At the Columbus Zoo on a recent visit I was struck again by how much they “preach” being green. The new Asia Quest Exhibit has a lot about conservation including what we can all do at home, a lot of the same ideas above. Lots of common sense stuff.
