Friday, November 25, 2011

Sustainability in the home

Sustainability in the home is a very extreme aspect of life when different things are happening.Expecially climate change is included.There's a few ways people can consume power within your home, energy is used for everything especially in a person’s home. To provide light in one’s home uses energy, to keep you warm energy is supplied, also energy is even supplied when hot water in one’s home is needed. Energy is used to function all the appliances in a house or other places as well.Taking actions as in insulating and weather stripping your home and buying energy star certified (High efficiency) appliances is a way to conserve energy and keeping your house in a sustainable balance.Clean and greener energy appliances.Modernizing your windows can be another way you can go green, replace your windows with argon filled double glazed windows they save 2.4 tons of CO2 per year. Changes in temperature due to climate change effects our demand for energy. As for example rising air temperatures will most likely lead to substantial increases in energy demand for air conditioning in most American cities . But on the other hand energy needed for space-heating can in deed decrease.Us as humans can modify our actions in ways that limit energy use. Using green products can stop the uneccessary burning of these fossil fuels and this wont affect our energy use, our cars and other energy used resources by living a energy savory life.The remaining emissions are from methane from waste in our land fills, raising live stock , natural gas pipelines, and coal , isn't that interesting. An individual can make the most impact of reducing carbon emissions.Examples like the electricity we use in our house holds, the waste we produce, also the transportation we choose to use each and everyday of our lives.Those choices affects us personally and even more our future life styles to come in case ones never took the time to dwell on this. Take the time out to set your priorities straight and see the difference from using all this energy that you don't need, you can save it and use healthy energy consuming without costing you a fortune or even harming the planet. Thoughts like these keep the planet and a house balance very stable and sustainable in deed.There are a few basic tips to put a halt to climate change.Check your tires , for each gallon of gas's saved 20 lbs of carbon dioxide aren't produced. Use less hot water because it takes energy to heat the water and by using less of it , it reduces 350 lbs of carbon dioxide. And avoid products with a lot of packaging, preventing waste from being created meaning there's less energy wasted and fewer resources thats consumed.And last the most extreme tip is to turn off your electric appliances when they are not in use, because thats wasting usable resources and energy that can be used for something much more needed.Especially in the house house when individuals have electric devices inserted into the outlets if they aren't in need then unplug them so the energy is not going to waste. Therefore save energy and keep your home in peaceful balance but going green and keeping it sustainable.

 This image explains how sustainability is an extreme aspect that controls the worlds functioning.






Link: http://www.powerscorecard.org/reduce_energy.cfm
         http://earth911.com/news/2007/04/02/what-can-i-do-to-help-prevent-climate-change/

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