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Looking to get your house humming green? In 2010 we’re completely full of great advice from every corner of the internet. We’ve done a little informal survey and put together these 5 tips on how to get yourself started on saving money and living green! Check them out:

#5: Pretend You’re Tasked With Saving Money.

Walk around your house like you’ve been tasked with reducing the energy budget severely. Go around with a clipboard, taking notes and pretending as though you need to shave off several hundred dollars from your company’s energy budget and they’ve tasked you with the job because only you have the smarts to pull it off.

#4: Invest Now, Save Later.

They always say ‘a stitch in time saves nine’, and it’s a useful proverb for a reason. Take care of some of your wasteful expenditures — those old-style power bars that suck energy all day, or the idea of leaving your computer on constantly — things like that, which might require a bit of spending up-front, but will leave you in much better financial (and environmental) condition later on.

#3: Look to Parts of Europe.

Your dryer wastes a ton of energy. You probably have a hallway or something in your house that can take care of this, just as easily, without the huge expenditure of energy that happens when you run that dryer. So — get a drying rack and do like the old world.

#2: Figure out ways to get Alternative Energy.

There’s no reason you have to get 100% of your power just from the electricity grid. Call a solar panel installer or a local green co-op and see what some of your options are. This is the new direction for 2010, and you’d be surprised about how much you can do with a bit of investment.

#1: Keep Up With Environmental News.

You’ll never run out of ideas or inspiration if you check up with the latest green news from time to time. Not only will you get new ideas, but as the news coming from climate change scientists seems to only be getting more dire, you’ll be spurned into action all that much faster!

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