42 Ways to Green Your Neighborhood - Neighborhood Greening (2024)
When you take a shower, do the dishes, or flush the toilet, the water you use inside your home goes to a water treatment plant (unless you are on a septic system). Water outside the home is an entirely different matter. Water that goes down the stormdrain on your street does not go to a water treatment plant. It flows to our local water bodies.
Water that goes down the stormdrain on your street is polluted in some way. Outside your home, water from rain, or excess water from a sprinkler system, rolls down your driveway or sidewalk, or off your lawn, continues down the road, and picks up pollutants on your street along its way–fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, grass clippings, fall leaves, winter salt, and more. Some of this pollution is invisible–like residue from our automobiles—or dissolved, like salt. All of this water goes down our stormdrains and makes its way to our local waters.
You can help be a solution to water pollution in many ways. Here’s one of the most simple things you can do to make a big impact: point your downspouts into your yard or garden, not down your driveway or onto your sidewalk. This will keep water in your yard where it can be naturally absorbed rather than flowing down your driveway, and picking up street contaminants and debris that end up in our local waters.
Planting trees is an excellent way to get your community involved in something that will benefit the planet, clean up the air, and even increase your property value. If you are planning on planting inside the community for the event, do your homework.
Planting trees is an excellent way to get your community involved in something that will benefit the planet, clean up the air, and even increase your property value. If you are planning on planting inside the community for the event, do your homework.
Planting trees, flowers, and other plants, wherever space is available, can give the city a more green look and feel. Even adding plants inside buildings can create a green space where people feel relaxed and welcome.
Use Renewable Energy Sources: Consider solar panels or other renewable energy options to power your home. Recycle and Upcycle: Reduce waste by recycling and repurposing materials whenever possible. Invest in Green Home Technology: Explore smart home devices and energy-saving technologies.
Take a look at some fixes that will have you living greener in no time.
Dial it down. Moving your thermostat down just two degrees in winter and up two degrees in summer could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
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