Green goals for your home

Measurable goals are attainable goals

It’s often easier to make and keep a commitment—like going green—when you set measurable goals. A simple strategy is to determine actions you can reduce and others you can increase around the home. Choose specific ways you can make changes (like a percentage of the bill, number of occurrences or within a timeframe) to affect your household’s habits around these areas:

Reduce

• Energy and water usage
• Food waste
• Purchase/replacement of new electronics
• Paper use
• Single-use plastics
• Frequency of lawn mowing
• New apparel and household decor purchases
• Meat consumption
• Number of trips to run household errands

Increase

• Recycling, upcycling, and repurposing efforts
• Strategic and eco-friendly landscaping using native plants
• Composting
• Purchasing or making environmentally friendly household items or yard products
• Areas in the yard left natural to provide habitats for insects
• Experiential, rather than physical, gifts
• Repair, refinishing and recovering of furniture
• Consumption of more organic and minimally processed foods
• Purchasing of items with minimal or recyclable packaging
• Use of items that can be refilled in their original container

• January 24, 2024
• Environment
• Pete Yang

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Pete Yang

Pete Yang is a senior vice president for Alpine Bank and the co-chair of Alpine's "Green Team." He's based in Aspen, where he handles commercial and consumer loans, with a particular focus on resort financing. He has a keen interest in protecting Colorado's unmatched mountain environment.

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