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Okay, we LUV the environment. It’s our own charity. Right? So if we want to make the most of our charity cash…
- Recycling $0/point (and LOTS of points at that!)
- Composting vegetable matter $0/pt
- Rain gardens $0/pt (it’s a glorified HOLE in the ground, yo!)
- Sink aerators $3.75/pt
- Low-flow shower heads $14.8/pt
- Carbon offsets $16/pt
- Air dry laundry $50/pt
- Green power programs $67.5/pt
- Dual flush toilets $96/pt
- Programmable thermostat $100/pt
- Insulate hot water pipes $124/pt
- Solar digester (bokashi) $130/pt
- Indoor CFL bulbs $139/pt
- Insulate hot water heater $150/pt
- Outdoor CFL bulbs $150/pt
Ivory
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You could also do worm composting, also called vermiculture, and build your own worm box. I have one in my kitchen and they turn all my veggie scraps into compost for me, no digging and turning required. It cost me maybe $20 total, but I did get my worms (red wrigglers) for free from a friend.
Dove
Thanks for this list. I see a couple of things we haven’t tried yet.
If you use a veggie based laundry soap like Seventh Generation you can recycle the wash water on ornamental plants. One year we saved the wash water and used it for flushing the you-know-what. We got our water use down to 12.33 gals per person/day. Not bad.