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4 sustainable strategies for green living at home

Most homeowners are in the know when it comes to eco-friendly practices. You can recycle aluminum, glass and paper goods. Turn off lights when leaving a room. Use fewer paper towels and take shorter showers.

However, as technology advances, there are even more opportunities for sustainability. Your friends at Dave Perry-Miller & Associates have a few helpful hints to share on going green.

Give your shirts the cold shoulder
Laundering clothing in cold water is equally as effective as using hot water. In fact, cold water enables you to conserve about 90 percent of the energy used for warming the water, according to the experts at Real Simple.

Taking it a step further, advances in washing machines, dryers, detergents and softeners encourage the use of cold water, so consider keeping clothes cool the next time you do laundry.

For landscaping, go native
Plants, trees, shrubs and flowers native to Texas are, by design, acclimated to the area’s temperatures and soil. By using native, drought-tolerant landscaping, homeowners conserve water and promote the home’s outdoor beauty and aesthetics.

For more information on native landscaping, including names of native trees and plants, read “Natural Beauties” from the City of Dallas.

Give up the bottle
Drinking water is a health and wellness staple. Although water varieties have become more flavorful and vitamin-infused, it still comes to you in plastic bottles.

Strive to drink filtered water from a re-usable BPA-free plastic or stainless steel bottle. Experts at House Beautiful recommend installing an under-sink water filter, which is known to remove impurities.

Electrical issues
What do you do with powerless or non-working electronics? Rather than trash them, the City of Dallas requests that you recycle these gadgets to help keep the environment clean. (You can also visit Earth911 to find recycling facilities for electronics and just about anything else.)

Dallas is one of the greenest cities in the nation. Learn more about our city’s efforts for sustainable living here. And, for a list of items you can recycle that you may not have realized, visit Green America.

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Recycling old electronics helps protect the environment.

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Sleek furniture store IKEA to open first location in Dallas

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IKEA's signature Billy cabinet

Dallas finally gets its own IKEA store. According to a release, the Swedish-born furniture company is opening a new location — the first in Dallas proper — to debut in late 2025.

Called IKEA Dallas - University Park, the store will be located at The Shops at Park Lane, the center at US-75 and Park Lane that's home to stores such as Whole Foods Market, American Girl, Saks Off 5th, and Home Goods.

The address is 8080 Park Ln., and they're not specifying exactly which storefront it will occupy, but it will be a smaller-format store at 63,000 square feet than its suburban siblings such as Frisco where the square footage is 310,000 square feet.

IKEA is on a journey to become more accessible, affordable, and convenient, with smaller "urban" stores that have a limited inventory of items sold on site: 3,200 articles.

IKEA's entire range will not be available for immediate takeaway; big furniture items like beds and couches, for example, can only be ordered online, with options for store pick-up or home delivery at a minimal fee.

Nonetheless, the Park Lane will be two levels and will be the 11th store in Texas: Currently, there are five full-sized IKEA stores, three "Plan and Order Points with pick up, and two smaller-format stores opening in San Marcos and Rockwall.

IKEA Rockwall, which just celebrated its groundbreaking, will comprise 108,875 square feet and the store be built from the ground up. IKEA Dallas-University Park will be built in an existing building at The Shops at Park Lane, which building it is, they do not say.

The Rockwall store will have a new Swedish Deli cafe where they'll serve meals onsite, as well as their Swedish Bistro takeout concept, serving their signature Swedish meatballs which they also offer in a delectable plant-based version as well, you should totally try it if you have not already.

Park Lane will have food, as well, although no word on whether there'll be a cafe.

"At IKEA, we want to create a better everyday life for the many people and one way we can do that is by bringing IKEA close to where people live, work, socialize and shop, says IKEA US CEO Javier Quiñones in a statement. :The opening of IKEA Dallas - University Park is a perfect example of our strategy to develop smaller, more accessible urban store formats, bringing a more connected and accessible IKEA experience to everyone."

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