How You Can Make Your Garden Help Fight Global Warming
Posted on: 14 December 2018
Global warming is an extremely serious issue to many Australians, with the current reports stating that unless drastic change occurs immediately, there will be long-lasting and catastrophic effects. With that in mind, it is important that everyone do their bit to reduce their impact on the environment, and a place that many people overlook when considering their carbon footprint is the backyard. It may not use as much energy as many areas of your home or office, but it still can take up a surprising amount of resources and, left unchecked, these can build up to a substantial amount of unnecessary energy usage. Here are a few ways you can reduce this energy usage while not suffering from choosing to go green.
Solar Flood Lights
Perhaps the biggest single use of energy in the backyard is the lighting. This can be through little lights that are dotted around your garden or bigger, lamp post style lights that light up huge swathes of your backyard. However, a new and popular way to light your garden at night is through the use of solar flood lights, which have the same power and lighting capabilities as previous lights without impacting the environment. You can even get motion sensor solar flood lights that are perfect for the entry to your home to help you see when you come home late at night. These also double as good deterrents for would be intruders; a motion sensor light can often spook them and alert you to the presence of unwanted intruders.
Greywater Usage
Gardens can use a lot of water and, especially during droughts, this can be very costly as well as quite taxing on the environment. A good way to reduce this impact is to install greywater recycling systems for your laundry, shower and sinks across your house, and there are great programs that help you do this, including Greywater Action. While greywater might sound bad, it simply is a term that refers to water that has already been used once and might have some non-toxic chemicals in it (it does not include water from your toilet). While this water is not good for most household chores, it is perfectly fine to use on the garden and can reduce your water bill while helping save the planet.
Update Your Power Hungry Tools
This mainly applies to those who have been gardening for decades and have used their tools for that amount of time. While impressive as it is that most of your equipment still works, a lot of older items like lawnmowers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers and even the taps and hose nozzles can be extremely energy inefficient. It is not always possible to replace all these items at once, but over time, you should look to upgrade some of these gas guzzling machines with ones that run on chargeable battery packs that can be sourced through more green methods. This will also save you money over time and will hopefully provide you with better quality equipment that works faster, providing you pick out a good quality brand.
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