Learn How Your Household Consumes Resources - and What to Do About It - at LowImpactLiving.com

If you want to learn more about your household energy consumption, and how to reduce it, look no further than Low Impact Living.




This great site has an "impact calculator" that can give you general reports on how much energy your household consumes (your home plus transportation) and offers green projects to reduce consumption, room by room. Here's one report on a typical American home:






The listings of potential improvement projects that accompany these reports show you how much money it will cost, how much savings it generates in terms of both dollars and environmental impact (energy, water, waste, CO2), as well as how long the payback period is. Links take you to product listings to help with the project, or let you search for contractors in your area to help you out. In fact, Low Impact Living has an extensive Products and Services page to help you make your green project a success. Low Impact Living shows you real ways to save energy and money, and tells you how to get it done.

There are also great pages that help you learn more about your impacts - both the resources you consume and the resulting wastes you generate. There are also guides to green alternatives like solar and wind power, hybrid cars, carbon offsets and green insulation. Overall I'm finding it extremely informative.

The Low Impact Living site is very well done, easy to navigate, and absolutely loaded with useful information. It's probably the most practical green resource for your home that I've come across yet. It's a straightforward guide to how households consume resources, what happens when they do, and what to do about it. Give it a click!

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