Green audits are pretty darn easy to conduct. With any audit you simply investigate and assess a situation, person, organization, system, process, company or enterprise, product, or project. Whew, which sounds heavy duty, but it’s really not that tough.
The end result of a green audit is not change, but the tools to create change. For example you can do a green home trash audit, but all you’re doing is gathering information about your trash and recycling methods and habits. After the fact is what matters. You can take the information gained from an audit and ignore it or use the information to focus on areas where you could change or be more efficient.
While all families are different, and thus will have different audit results, there are still components of any typical green audits that will apply to everyone.
Benefits of a green audit
An audit clues you in to how you’re currently living, what sort of consumer you are, or gives you powerful information about a green company or product. It tells you how you, your home and your community, among other things stack up – i.e. are you a green champion or a green liability?
Using a green audit
- Once you conduct a green audit, you don’t necessarily have to change anything. If you’re perfectly content with the results, then good. In most cases though a green audit will reveal areas that could be changed for the better.
- If you’re not thrilled with your green audit results you can use the information to actively change how you’re living or change up the habits you’re used to.
To sum up a well conducted green audit can show you where your family is doing well and not so well with green living. It’ll allow you to gather the tools necessary to make positive green changes. Coming up soon we’ll be looking at some various green audits focused on your home, your child’s school, your consumer habits and more. Hopefully your family will be able to participate in some of these green audits. If so keep in mind that you don’t have to change the green scope of your home or life in a single day, week, month, or year. Green audits can really freak folks out, because they can seem overwhelming, but green changes that are gradual are still changes and still positive.
Stay tuned for some cool green audits for everyone in your family.
