Green Living
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
New Home
We're in the market and will be buying a home sometime in the next couple of months. We would really like to help decrease our carbon foot print.
Suggestions on things we can do in our new home to make this happen?
Re: New Home
If you buy a home with green features (energy star, solar panels, passive solar, etc) that helps. If not, buying a modest house will help long term as well.
Projects to do once you are in are things to make your home more energy efficient - insulation, energy star, etc. You can also use green products (cleaning, cosmetics) and work to use sustainable food.
Are you building or buying existing? If the later how old?
As far as your home itself goes it's all about energy efficiency. Insulation (everywhere) is the most cost effective thing you can pay for. As far as the life of the home goes an efficient HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) system is the next best thing.