Practicing a sustainable lifestyle will potentially help ensure the world is still around (more or less) for your kids and grandkids, but it also has more immediate benefits.

Being somewhat of a cheap frugal person, I like quick and easy ways to make sure my bank account isn’t being unnecessarily drained. Luckily, adopting energy efficient — or sustainable lifestyle — practices is an easy way to achieve that.

Check out LighterFootstep’s “Ten First Steps Toward a Lighter, More Sustainable Lifestyle” to see how you can help save the world and save yourself a few bucks in the process.

There are inexpensive things you can do to increase your home’s energy efficiency, and then there are expensive things you can do.

Wired has an interesting story on some pretty cool things that some people have done to their homes. And these aren’t things like replacing lightbulbs…

Check out some of these hi-tech homes…