Earth Day: Will the next foreclosure you rehab be GREEN?

Earth Week San Diego

Earth Day is coming up April 22 with an Earth day event at Balboa Park, San Diego on Sun April 19 10-5. What a great time to learn how we can make our lives and businesses greener. We all know about recycling our paper and bottles. Take a new step each week. How about carrying around your own cup and water bottle? Hand it over at the coffee shop to have them fill it up. Or bring in your own reusable grocery bags. Others will see you and be inspired.
I love to rehab houses. Now I call it RECYCLING a house. Not building a new one but recycling a house that someone else could not use anymore. You can even “recycle the loan” by taking the house subject to the existing mortgage. Will you install appliances that use the least amount of energy possible? How about renewable bamboo for the flooring? How about energy efficient light fixtures?
If you want more Ideas go to the eHOME exhibit on Sunday, part of Earth Day. Here is a link for Earth Week events in San Diego Earth Day Fair, Balboa Park The world’s largest annual environmental fair and Earth Day Celebration – all produced by volunteers. Check out a new sponsor for the event Zero Waste San Diego
If you can not make it to San Diego, here is an easy one for you: check out Earth Day on Amazon Scroll down their page and send me a comment on how many of those products you use. I’ll go first: green cleaners, personal stainless steel water bottle, compact fluorescent bulbs, bamboo flooring, reusable grocery bags, compost pile, gardening book, waste baskets (real baskets woven from grasses, not plastic), low flush toilets.
Check out the chance to win a laptop and printer from Amazon. Amazon and ENERGY STAR are hosting an Earth Day Sweepstakes. Find the info right at the top of that same Amazon page. Five first-place winners will receive two ENERGY STAR-qualified devices: a Toshiba laptop and a Brother multifunction printer. Fifteen second-place winners will receive the Brother printer. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Enter by April 22, 2009.
Earth Day Video