Eco-Living Consulting Services

Eco-officiency provides sustainable-living consulting for individuals and families who want to create and sustain an eco-lifestyle. We specialize in assisting busy individuals and families who want to ‘green’ their homes and personal lives, but don’t have the time to research, investigate and implement green solutions by themselves.

Eco-officiency first conducts an extensive eco-living assessment of our client’s home and their personal/family lifestyle. Once completed, we create a customized and comprehensive sustainable-living plan addressing that client’s particular needs. Our sustainable-living plans save money and resources, reduce our clients’ ecological footprints, and create eco-friendly lifestyles.

Each sustainable-living plan covers the following areas areas:

• "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything but still can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

  —Edward Everett Hale
  Energy Consumption
• Water Use
• Waste Reduction and Recycling
• Consumption and Purchasing
• Transportation
• Green Building and Home Improvement
• Chemical and Non-Toxic Alternatives
• Food Choices
• Sustainable Travel

Energy Consumption Did you know that by implementing a few inexpensive energy-efficient measures, you can reduce your energy bills by 10% to 50%? For the typical home this means a savings of $140 - $ 700 annually. Eco-officiency will evaluate ways in which to reduce energy consumption and recommends the best products, services and energy-saving resources.  We will determine if you need a full Home Energy Audit and renewable energy options.
Water Use The average American family  uses 182 gallons of water each day, two and four times the average consumption of a family in Europe. The average American family uses about 40% of their water within the home and the remaining 60% outside - for gardens and landscaping. Eco-officiency educates its clients on many zero-cost ways to reduce water consumption inside and outside the home. We also recommend low-flow and other water-saving devices when appropriate.
Waste Reduction and Recycling The average American generates over 1,600 pounds of trash per year- more than twice the garbage of the average European. If all Americans recycled paper, plastic and glass bottles, and aluminum cans, this would divert over 51% of the waste in our current landfills. If all Americans composted food scraps and yard waste this would divert another 25%.  Each American has the potential to divert over 75% of their current waste just through recycling and composting. Eco-officiency helps families develop convenient recycling and composting systems within their homes and educates them on how to reduce other hard-to-recycle waste through reduction, re-use and other national recycling services.
Consumption and Purchasing According to the United Nations, it would take 3 planet earths to support everyone in a consumption-oriented western lifestyle. Creating a sustainable eco-lifestyle often starts with your purchasing habits. While reducing overall consumption is of primary  importance, wisely choosing what you do purchase provides manufacturers with information on consumer demand – if purchases indicate demand for green products, economic growth in a more sustainable way is possible.  Eco-officiency educates families on the 10 essential questions to ask before purchasing a product and provides information on the best green products and services in the market today. Eco-officiency also helps you reduce and re-purpose current household items.
Transportation By driving two fewer days per week, the average person can save about 143 gallons of gasoline and keep about 2,778 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere in a year. If 64 % of all licensed US drivers (or ½ of the US population) followed suit, this would be the same amount of oil that Iraq produces in one year.  It would also save 340 billion pounds of CO2 emissions. Busy families with varying work and school schedules and other activities can find using alternative transportation challenging. Eco-officiency will helps families determine a plan to incorporate more alternative transportation methods into their lifestyle, without giving up convenience, and helping to reduce the monthly gas bill.
Green Building and Home Improvement Considering remodeling your home? Eco-officiency experts will provide education and resources on green-building alternatives.  Utilizing eco alternatives in your home improvement projects has the potential to lower operating and maintenance costs, as well as making your home safer and even more energy-efficient.
Chemical and Non-Toxic Alternatives There are currently more than 85,000 synthetic chemicals registered for use in North America. Only 10% of them have been fully tested for their effects on human health and the environment.  It is difficult to know about all of the harmful chemicals, toxins, and products in your home when you don’t necessarily see, feel, or even smell them. them. Many of the chemicals used in the last 50 years do not break down and have become known as major pollutants in the environment. Most significantly, these pollutants are in our food and water supply. Some blood tests have shown that children have chemical exposures up to seven times greater than their parents. Eco-officiency examines the products used in your home and educates you on the potential health risks associated with using these chemicals. We also examine safe places and locations to keep chemicals and toxins in order to protect individuals, families and pets from increased exposure.
Food Choices The food choices that you makes can greatly affect your health and the environment. Food production and consumption affects many areas of the environment including high energy and water use, high carbon output, land destruction, and high pesticide and chemical use.  Eco-officiency educates you on eco-friendly food choices that will decrease your ecological footprint and increase your health and vitality.
Sustainable Travel Tourists now spend $1.6 trillion per year on tourist-related activities while 10% of the jobs worldwide are in travel-related businesses. Tourism provides enormous opportunity for developing cities and countries economically but can also become a means to cultural and environmental destruction.  Eco-officiency provides sustainable travel resources and guidance in order to assist travelers in conserving the environment, improving the well-being of local people, and maximizing their travel experience.