Tips on How to Green Your House

Series Summary

With global warming and other environmental issues constantly in the news these days, you may be wondering how to do your part to save the planet. In this series of free videos, our conservation expert Nili Nathan interviews Anne Reichman, director of the popular Earth 911 website. They demonstrate several very basic steps you can take in your home and home office to reduce your footprint on our environment. These steps include using eco-friendly inks and papers, low energy light bulbs and canvas bags at the grocery store. Reichman also demonstrates how to conserve water while washing dishes, how to reuse cleaning rags and cloth napkins and how to determine what garbage can be recycled.

The basic ideas of conservation around your home are best summed up with what Reichman calls "The Hierarchy of Waste." The first level in this hierarchy is to REDUCE your amount of waste from the source, i.e. buy only what you need. The second level is to REUSE products when you have the opportunity. Last of all, RECYCLE, and you will be well on your way to a green home. Let our eco-friendly experts on show you how!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Neeley Nathan, your watching Expert Village. This is my series on greening and today we're going to meet my new favorite expert Laura Klein who is quite an authority herself. She has founded Organicauthority.com and it is a fantastic website where you can learn some great tips on how to green your home and come on, join me and let's go find my authority. And here she is, "hi Laura", "hi Neeley how are you?" "Excellent""good, good I thank you for inviting us into your home and look we're here in your lovely organic garden and I see your growing lettuce, and eggplant and tomatoes.""What's that over there?" "We have squash we have pumpkins which is a squash, we also have probably over ten different types of herbs, absolutely adore fresh herbs." "So besides being an organic gardener your also a culinary chef, you went to culinary school." "Yes and that is really were all this started and is were Organic Authority came from, because I really wanted to share my passion and educate people on the importance of going organic." "Well what's on your website Organicauthority.com? what would we find there?" "Well, how to shop for organic foods on a budget, you'll discover how to create a healthy home, because not, health doesn't just come from what you eat it is also the environment where you live." "Right! sure" " and we're going to talk a lot about this today." "Ok good, tell us some things your going to show us today" "I'm going to give you the tips on how to shop on a budget and I'm going to give you some do it yourself home cleaning remedies that are totally natural and affordable by the way." " That's so good because those toxins in those chemical cleaners are very bad for our health so I'm glad your going to be sharing that with everybody." "Yes and I'll show you how to clean your produce when you bring it home, which is very affordable so you don't have to buy those expensive washes and we're going to talk about how to clean up the air within your home." "Ah good" "which is also very important" "Excellent and thank you for inviting us into your house" "Yeah, so let's go Neeley" "Let's get started.""