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While it may seem that being green is the new 'in' thing, it also has the added bonus of usually saving one some money.  It's the simple things that one can do to be green and save money at the same time. For example, when brushing your teeth or shaving, make sure you turn the tap off.  In the past, I used to be notorious for doing this.  It's so easy to just accidentally leave the tap on while you're brushing your teeth, but if you think about it, it's a lot of unnecessary wasted water.  Sure one could argue that water is very cheap in our developed nations, but there's no reason to waste it, even if it does cost you literally pennies.  Turn that water off while you're brushing your teeth, it's better for the environment. How about household cleaners?  Did you know that if you create your own household cleaners using a lot of home made ingredients (eg. baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice etc) you can create some really po...

Over at SeekingAlpha, they have an excellent article about investing in the commodity water through Water ETFs. In the article, the author outlines his reasons for why he is long on water. After reading the article, I have to agree. Good quality sanitized water is definitely scarce and will become more scarce decades from now. The author believes that a water ETF is a great long term hold (decades) For more of his ideas, please click here for the entire article .

If your only interest in organic is for its health value, then Consumer Reports has a quick list of which products you should dig deep into your pockets for: Apples, bell peppers, celery, cherries, imported grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, potatoes, red raspberries, spinach, and strawberries. For all other fruits and vegetables, it doesn't make much sense. For example with Bananas there is hardly any pesticide residual on the fruit so it doesn't make a huge difference whether you buy or organic or not.