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In our last post, we told you about preparing your home for the fall season. That is the work side of things. In this post, we want to talk about the play side of things, but in a greener, more responsible way: decorating your home for the upcoming holiday seasons and keeping it ‘green’.
What benefits do we have by decorating ‘green’? Like all other ‘green’ solutions, decorating ‘green’ is meant to save energy. With the availability of products out there, it should be no problem finding energy efficient options that are as easy on the wallet as they are on the environment. Not only do you save energy, and money in the form of electric bills and having to replace items like energy efficient light bulbs in the future, but you can appear tech savvy to friends and neighbors while showing people you care about the environment.
The question is: how do you decorate your home for the upcoming holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc.) while also being environmentally conscience?
The question has a long list of answers, but our “solution motif” is: Rethink and Recycle.
Under “rethink”, look for products made locally, perhaps within 100 or 200 miles. While that seem like a far distance, it is much closer than most countries, so even if the product that you are buying may not be categorized as ‘green‘, the fact that less energy was used to obtain it means you are playing a role in being friendlier to the earth. And remember, like we said in an earlier post, 25% of San Luis Obispo’s residents work for themselves. Shopping local not only helps the environment, it supports local business owners and employees who keep the city alive.
Another idea is to recycle or repurpose items you already have. For example, before you go and throw away last year’s (or last decade’s) holiday decorations because they seem outdated or no longer operate to their fullest capacity, think of other ways they can be used. We found some great examples of this on this website. That should give you the idea that lots of items can fulfill purposes they are not originally designed for.
We know that everyone has their own specific ways for decorating their homes, so these are just some ways to supplement your ideas. Do you have an idea of something we should have included? Perhaps something outside of our rethink and recycle motif? If you have an idea we have not thought of, we invite you to share it in a comment section below and show the world how San Luis Obispo does the fall holidays.
Thanks and have fun decorating all fall, cause soon enough, it will be time for the winter holidays!