By following the recommendations below, you can make your home more eco-friendly and protect our one and only planet of life. By purchasing some of the additional products listed below, you will incur additional cost, but in the long run, these products will save you hundreds of dollars in reduced utility bills. Water and energy conservation products pay for themselves over time and then you will continue to receive the benefits of these products with ever on-going savings over several years.

Buy CFL bulbs. The most obvious “green” product is a CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulb. While LED lighting will be the future of all lighting applications, it is still an expensive technology that also cannot generate the high lumens that comparable incandescent and CFL bulbs can produce. CFL bulbs reduce electricity use while contributing to your reduction of carbon emissions. Use low-flow shower heads, hand showers and faucet aerators. Purchasing a low-flow shower head or hand shower does not mean having to put up with a weak stream shower product. Technologies now exist that can increase the feel of water volume without using more water (for example, Alsons’ Fluidics Water-Amplifying Shower Heads). Many faucet aerators are rated at 2.2 or 2.5 gpm. You should be using a 1.5 gpm faucet aerator for the kitchen. The bathroom aerator should be no higher than 1.5 gpm, but could go lower. Turn down the temperature on your water heater. Turning down the temperature on your water heater to 120