Best Green Living

Your water heater uses more energy than any other appliance in the home except your heating system. It costs a typical family of four between $280 and $310 per year for water heating. For many families, this represents a significant portion of their utility bills. 
For most households, the energy used to heat water can be [...]

In a typical suburban home, the lawn consumes more water than just about anything else.  A thousand square foot lawn watered for fifteen minutes, three times a week uses about 5,400 gallons of water per month.
In desert climates, lawn is especially inappropriate.  Albuquerque, NM averages less than nine inches of rainfall per year, but Kentucky [...]

I have posted a few times on water conservation.  It is time to take it a step further.
In many areas of the country you are not only being charged with your incomming water use, but also for your waste water discharge.  This has just started in my area and my water bill has tripled.  So [...]

I had mentioned the Evolve showerhead in a previous post.  It was interesting enough that I pruchased one for my own use.
The beauty of the Evolve showerhead is that it lets you save water without compromising your waterflow.  As I had mentioned, it does this by shutting the water down to a trickle when it [...]

Clean running water, an absolute necessity to our very survival, is also incredibly handy around the house. So handy, in fact, that most of us use it wastefully at least part of the time. As our growing population strains our water resources and infrastructure to the limits, costs for providing water will escalate. We can [...]