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Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Home
Tue 12 May 2009 - 10:36
Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Home
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Markus_Taylor]Markus Taylor
Imagine no need to pay monthly electricity bills, were your heating and power is self-generating, and your food is partly grown in your own back garden, without needing to visit the supermarket.
As others around you struggle with rising living costs, higher taxes and the headache of paying bills. You and your loved ones can sit back, relax and enjoy the freedom of cutting your bills down, whilst creating your own source of energy right in your back yard.
Not only do you have a sustainable home, but a home were you can actually generate enough income, to support a comfortable and secure home life, without worrying about the future.
How can you create this "dream"?
1. Invest in Solar Energy
It cost approximately 200 US$ to install a solar energy panel in your home, with enough power to save you approximately 75% of your monthly electrical costs. Two panels should provide enough power to provide excess energy for your home.
2. Install a home Wind power Generator
Backing up your existing solar panels cost less than 200 US$, if you install it yourself. This creates a home that is completely independent from outside energy sources, even in the midst of winter.
3. Hydroponics Gardening
Grow anything by using hydroponics gardening, right in your back yard. Hydroponics is a system that grows any produce in small spaces, allowing landowners to make more use of their land. As this system develops, "Home hydroponics" may become the hot, new trend of the future.
4. Set up an online Business
Our economies may be downsizing, but the internet continues to expand, not only as the new medium of communication, but as a way to do business. You need to identify future trends, and then on-line start a business around these trends. A successful online business could create an income, and a means to survive the economic upheaval we face in the future.
5. Offer a Home-based Service
Working from home saves travel costs, and gets people to come to you, rather then you having to come to them. By offering a service your community needs, like a repair shop, or even an alternative energy store, could generate enough income to expand your home, and create your own future.
6. Keep Animals
Chickens, Ducks and Geese provide healthy and expensive eggs, you can consume or sell within your community. Rather than having to shop for eggs, you have your own supply at home.
7. Join a Community Trading Network
Households across Europe are joining community trading networks, were they can trade unwanted or unused household goods within their community, without parting with any cash. Many of these communities have an online presence, and going without, may be replaced with trading with, in the near future, as this trend expands.
Beating the current recession, means we may have to look to the future, and adjust to it in a positive way. These seven steps may be the difference between surviving and prospering in the future, whilst helping you create a sustainable household.
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