What’s often not mentioned in the discussion about how going green is good for the environment is that going green can also be good for you and your bank account. One of the things I like best about thegoodhuman.com (which I have profiled here and here) is that the site is a healthy balance of saving the environment and saving money.

And that’s where an article on green.msn.com titled “Which Green Upgrades Are Worth the Extra Expense?” comes in to help further the cause. The feature gives us five energy-saving, and thus earth-saving and money-saving, gadgets to use around the house, and tells you the up-front cost, the time it will take to pay that cost off, your potential annual savings, and potential lifetime savings.

For example, you know how when you go to the store, and you’re buying a new light bulb, and the new CFL bulbs are just that much more expensive that you might pass on them? Well, turns out that extra cost is paid off in the first seventeen minutes of use.

here to read about more tips that will help out the environment and your bank account at the same time. Cause, really, like I’ve said, the environment’s good and all, but every dollar that doesn’t get spent on energy costs gets me a quarter of the way closer to a six-pack of Miller High Life. Which I will recycle, helping once again. Ahh, the circle of life. Simba would be so proud.