5 Things You Can Do (Today!) to Green Your Kitchen

If you're thinking about improving your carbon footprint, your kitchen might be one of the most important places to start. The ugly truth about what we use to clean our homes is quite unsettling, but if you put your best eco foot forward with these five easy steps, you can have a cleaner, greener and healthier kitchen.

1) Textile Transformation. Consider replacing your current textiles with bamboo/organic cotton kitchen towels, reusable dish cloths, and eco-friendly sponges and wipes. Use old dish towels as dust cloths instead of tossing them.

2) Clean Green. Try to use cleaners with less chemicals, like Green Works, Mrs. Meyers, or Method. Replacing a few of your old cleaners with these more natural cleaners will instantly help the environment and protect your family against harsh chemical residue and fumes from chemical irritants such as bleach, carpet cleaners, aerosols, air fresheners or ammonia.

3) Just Bamboo It. Use bamboo cooking and baking utensils. A few years ago, I noticed that some of my plastic ones started melting and chipping into my food, and I quickly went out and purchased a fairly inexpensive set of bamboo ones and haven't looked back. If you want to take it a step further, there is a variety of bamboo kitchen accessories available.

4) Save Energy. Replace your light bulbs with low-impact lighting, and make good use of natural light whenever possible. If you're in the market for new appliances, be sure to look for Energy Star appliances because they save energy and money!

5) Throw it away and feel OK. Did you know you can even get recycled trash bags or biodegradable cups and dishware? If it absolutely has to be thrown away, why contribute to landfill trash? Go biodegradable, and lose the guilt.

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