There are many reasons that people have been exploring the benefits of going green. For most people it is to save some green (money). There are many cost effective things that you can do that will pay for itself overtime and conserve on energy use which helps lower green house gases. 1. REPLACE INCANDESCENT BULBS WITH COMPACT FLORESCENT LIGHTS (CFL'S). One major thing that is so simple to do is to replace your regular incadescent lights which usually is between 60 - 100 watts, to fluoresent lights that emit the same amount of light, but uses between 8 - (1 comments)