Green Living at GardenSuperMart.com » green http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:42:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Going Away for Holidays http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2008/12/17/going-away-for-holidays/ http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2008/12/17/going-away-for-holidays/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:19:47 +0000 Courtney http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/?p=121 The holidays are fast approaching. Mid-way through next week, I’m going to be heading off to visit my parents for about a week and a half. While I’m gone, I want my apartment to be using as little electricity as possible, and to stay as green as possible. I’ve been looking into everything that I can be doing over this period of time to make it as green as possible when I’m away. I’m unplugging everything except my refrigerator (and my stove, which is staying plugged in as I cannot pull it out and get to the plug). If something is plugged in, it still draws power. Whether it’s for a clock, or because it likes to respond to remote controls, it draws power. And there’s really no sense in it doing that while no one is home.

A lot of sites that I’ve been looking into that talk about greening your home when you go away on vacation mention turning down your heating. For me, that is hard because I have no control over the heating – the whole building uses radiators that the landlord controls the settings of.

Are you going anywhere for the holidays? Are you planning on greening your home while you’re away?

]]> http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2008/12/17/going-away-for-holidays/feed/ 0 One Million Acts of Green http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2008/12/08/one-million-acts-of-green/ http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2008/12/08/one-million-acts-of-green/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:16:13 +0000 Courtney http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/?p=119 I joined a new(ish) website over the weekend – One Million Acts of Green. This website counts how much greenhouse gases you’re saving with each “act of green” that you commit. For example, packing a literless lunch saves 100 kg of greenhouse gases.

A lot of the things listed on the site I don’t have the ability to do, what with living in an apartment building – there is a good portion that is related strictly to home projects (such as hot water pipe insulation).

What I like best about this site, though, is that I can quantify what I’m doing – I like that I can put a number of greenhouse gases I’m reducing. Awesome!

Are you a member there?

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