Easy Tips For Making Your Bedroom Greener

Wanna save the planet? It’s going to take a lot more than recycling old beer bottles (although that’s good too! keep doing that!!).

By Tuffy Luv

Let’s start with the place you sleep, study, sex, and–let’s come clean here–eat. Yes, that’s right, we’re going to make your bedroom green.

Don’t panic! It’s totally easy. Ready? Here we go:

Change Your Bulbs

Replace your light bulbs with energy saving ones. Florescent lights are great–did you know they only use 1/3 of the energy your regular bulbs are using?

Stay Cool

Your air conditioner is sucking up a lot of energy (and costing you a fortune).

If you have an air conditioner, or any other large appliances, replace it with an appliance with the Energy Star label.

Or, if you’re really brave, ditch the AC and use fans instead. Or at least try to use fans instead of air conditioning most of the time.

Line Your Windows

You lose a lot of energy right out the cracks around your windows. Line your windows with either caulk or weather-stripping to keep that shiz in!

Change Your Sheets

And not just every week. (Or, more realistically, every two months.)

Regular cotton sheets and pillowcases are full of pesticides that you get to drape all over yourself every night while you sleep. Sweet dreams.

Get yourself a set of organic cotton linens. They’re soft and cozy and way better for the environment.

Get a Mattress Topper

A lot of mattresses are treated with toxic chemicals to keep stains from showing. This is so bad for you I don’t even want to think about it.

Get a nice mattress topper to put some space between you and the toxins. Ah, much better.

Donate Your Clothes

No, not all of them. Just the ones you never, ever, ever wear.

Recycling clothes is a great way to help the environment. No waste is good waste.

How do you keep your space green?

[Photo courtesy of Pricop Alexandru Mihai]