Going Green? What’s in it for Me?

With the world around us seemingly in turmoil, climate change, and uncertainties in the products being used in our nation. A beneficial thing for one to do is to go eco-friendly. Doing so will allow you to focus on living a healthier life inside and out while saving the environment. Everyone nowadays is promoting this idea of going green, but what does it really entail and what is in it for me?

Going Green means to live life, in a way that is friendly to the environment and is sustainable for the earth. Five principles that will help you go green are: reduce pollution, conserve resources, conserve energy, reduce consumption and waste, and protect the earths ecological balance.

Going Green and living an eco-friendly lifestyle has benefits the out number any fad diet or trend you are trying. Here is why:

1. Better Quality of Life

Going green requires you to think about everything you do: how will you reduce the use of certain products, what can you reuse and remembering to always recycle. Living eco-friendly means you will become less materialistic, when going green living luxurious is not possible. Requiring yourself to think about the environment everyday and decreasing the value of materials will help you live a fuller meaningful life.

2. Save Money!!

Whether you're a college student, a recent graduate just figuring out how to adult, or a parent with children, going green can save you money. Whoever you are, we all have one thing in common we love money. Going green causes one to become more aware of what their spending and using. Switching to energy saving products can reduce electric bills by hundreds of dollars. Going paperless saves you money when you pay bills online and if you use compact fluorescent light bulbs, you save money on energy costs. Each one of these fluorescent light bulbs you replace an incandescent bulb with will use 75 percent less energy according to Energy Star. If you are looking to dig into more ways to save money check out these 42 ways to cut cost. 

  

3. Improve Health 

Bottom line is less polluted air equals cleaner breathing air which in return improves your quality of life. A bonus is, the healthier you are the less likely you are to get sick aka no hospital bills and more saving money. If that isn't convincing enough living eco friendly and avoiding eating foods with preservatives can prevent cancer. Going green not only will award you physically but it will award you mentally as well. Knowing you're saving the environment and taking care of your body by being consciences of the environment will improve your mental state of mind.  

4. Saving the Future

Okay lets face it no matter how bad me or you wants to be a super hero its not happening... But by going green you can indeed save the future. Minimizing our waste now and reversing the affects of pollution on climate change from years will improve our environment and create better quality of life for the future.