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The Natural Strategies Group site proposes actions that reduce our individual impact on the environment and helps guide us towards sustainable living...

The Brown Family's program to reduce their impact on the environment by over 50% over three years (year 1).



In the first year of the Brown family's three year sustainability push, they focused on those things they could do differently day to day to reduce their impact on the environment, with no investment required these things saved the Brown Family a lot of money, day in day out.

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The following actions saved the Brown Family over $5000 in the first year…

Action

Saving (p.a.)

$ 1,900

$ 1,000

$  875

$  300

$ 275

$  225

$  175

$ 150

$ 150

$ 30

Estimated total savings first year

$ 5,080

*To see the data sources and assumptions used to generate these figures click here


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