How to design your home in an eco-responsible way?
The ecological awareness of the last few years leads most French people to turn to a more environmentally friendly decoration.
More and more expatriates want to do more to protect the environment and reduce their emissions. You can effectively fight global warming and greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing your comfort. Indeed, you can easily create a cocooning and eco-responsible space in your home to limit your impact on the environment. We give you all our tips for an eco-responsible interior in this article!
How to choose a more economical and ecological supplier?
Make an estimate of your EDF bill
Is your energy contract the best one for your energy consumption? It is necessary to correctly estimate one’s energy consumption in order to subscribe to the most suitable energy offer. It doesn’t matter if you have lived in France all your life or if you are an expatriate, the administrative procedures are the same.
Indeed, you can easily make an estimate of your EDF / electricity bill as on this
page
and optimize your energy contract to save money. An energy offer adapted to the real needs of your household will allow you to save money on your electricity bill but also to better control your energy consumption and reduce your impact on the environment.
Compare offers to find cheaper gas and electricity
Since the opening of the French energy market to competition, you can freely choose your electricity and gas supplier from among some thirty alternative suppliers. This new state of competition makes it easier to find
cheaper electricity and gas
.
It is necessary to carefully compare all the energy offers proposed on the French market to subscribe to the cheapest offer. You can use an online comparator to facilitate your steps but prefer an independent tool to obtain an objective result and avoid commercial solicitation.
This plurality of energy offers allows the diversity of prices but also the diversity of the proposed options. Therefore, if you want to develop your home in an eco-responsible way, you can turn to a 100% green energy offer. Today, most energy suppliers offer these deals.
Nevertheless, most of the green offers of alternative suppliers consist only of a carbon neutral offer: you consume electricity or gas from the common network (fossil origin) and the supplier commits to reinject electricity or gas from renewable energy sources up to your consumption. However, there are alternative energy suppliers that offer 100% eco-responsible energy listed in the guide published on the
website
of the Greenpeace association.
How to create a responsible and decorative interior?
Favour furniture with an eco-responsible production process
Responsible decoration is a new trend among designers and it consists in the ethical and environmentally friendly production of furniture and decorative elements. Responsible decoration is based on several important criteria.
- Local production to limit polluting emissions due to transport
- The choice of materials, which must come from responsible and ethical production channels: limited consumption of resources for production, etc.
- A low energy production process to limit its impact on the environment: limited production
- Optimizing furniture recycling to further reduce its impact on the environment
There are decoration brands specialized in responsible decoration but as a general rule, it is necessary to turn to French and/or European brands to reduce the ecological footprint of your decoration.
You can also be tempted by the recycling of objects and the making of a unique decoration with the Do It Yourself. There are thousands of videos available on the Internet if you want to find homemade decorating ideas.
Renting: an economical and ecological solution
Today, the rental of furniture and equipment is democratizing to meet the needs of households that are rapidly changing. Nevertheless, beyond the economic aspect of renting, it is also an ecological way to realize its decoration.
You can change your decoration regularly and all your furniture will have a second life in another home. In addition, renting appliances is also an effective way to mitigate the pollution caused by poor recycling of large waste.
It is an alternative especially well adapted to expatriates who do not necessarily settle in France for a long time. You can easily rent your furniture and return it when you leave the territory. You will gain a decoration to your taste and without commitment with a positive cost for the planet!
