Live Green And Save Money - 5 Tips On How To Do Both At The Same TimePosted by Butcher Stevenson on January 16th, 2021 Do you really show your clients that you care? There is more to customer satisfaction than just getting their work to them by the deadline. Your clients need to know that you care. This doesn't need to cost anything. It can be something as simple as talking to them and finding out about their problems and then finding a solution for them. I don't mean selling them more services/products, I mean actually listening and offering a solution. Doing small and thoughtful good deeds can mean the difference between retaining a client or losing one. One way that I have been saving h2o is by turning the water off when I brush my teeth. This doesn't mean that I don't use water, of course not. I only have the water on when I need it, other than that it's turned off. I don't k now how much this saves but, over a lifetime I'm sure it will help immensely. Teach your kids this, remember they will be here much longer than we will. Switch from bottled water to water out of the faucet. It will save you a load of money over the long term and will save tons of plastic bottles from winding up in landfills. Even if the bottles are recycled, a great deal of energy is used in transporting and recycling, so better not to use them in the first place. And nothing tastes better than icy cold water out of a real glass! Do you overheat your house? If you're getting up a sweat just going up and down the stairs, try turning down the thermostat. If it gets a bit chilly try putting on another layer of clothes rather than wandering around in shorts and t-shirt in the middle of winter! Think about energy-efficient light bulbs too. Change your light bulbs. You'll pay more for the new compact fluorescent lights, but save in the long run. They'll save you money on your power bill and save you money over their lifetime, which is longer than the traditional light bulb. Unlike what California did, which simply wasted millions of good bulbs and loaded up the landfills, move to compact fluorescent lights as the old bulbs burn out. That's green living at its best. Pay a little more for the premium fluorescents (somewhere around to ) and you can still enjoy a soft light instead of the traditional harsh fluorescent light. As we look for a balance in our lives, we are also keeping an eye on the sustainability factor. When we find a life balance that we like, is that lifestyle sustainable, can we continue to live like this, and is it workable, doable? What is the point in working towards a life style that we may want if it is impractical for our current conditions? I suppose we all would like to retire at 30 to an island in the South Pacific, but can we sustain that dream, that lifestyle? This works especially well with family members or neighbors. The possibilities are endless as far as who you can go green with. But the main point is that your partner keeps you accountable for your environmental actions, and you keep you partner accountable for their environmental actions. You can both keep an eye on each other to make sure that things are being recycled, reused, composted, etc. You can keep bouncing ideas off of each other about how to go green and how to reuse things. Say no to bottled water - Make it a practice to carry a reusable water bottle with you instead of buying disposable ones. click here will this cut back on the amount of plastic you waste but it will also reduce the amount of resources put into purifying the water, bottling and transporting it etc.Like it? Share it! More by this author |