How Incorporate Green Building Concepts Into My Home?
Aug 31st, 2009 Posted in Environment, Home and Environment | no comment »
A green home uses less energy, water and natural resources, produce less waste and is healthier for the people living there, compared to a regular housing. It’s that simple! A green home can be built, or you can make green later. A green remodel can happen all at once, or may be a gradual process. But this is a new way of thinking and a new way of living. From a kitchen more efficient in energy use up a backyard paradise full of trees, your home may be green. Convert to a Green House is easy if you go step by step, or a room at a time. It’s basically a little more about the product to be used. Is it energy efficient? Are you helping to clean the air or water? Is made of recycled materials? Switching to more “green” can also help your pocket. Many green products today are more durable than previous ones, so that eventually can make your home easier to maintain and reduce your bills for basic services.
Improve your home’s environmental performance by implementing the strategies listed below, and were already referred to above.
Energy efficiency through improvements in housing
• Use natural light, improves productivity
• Save energy using renewable sources of energy
• Energy efficiency in hot climates
• Energy efficiency in cold climates
• Saving energy through better utilization of solar energy
Air Quality Home
• Healthier life for you and your family
• Toxin-free building a better quality of air
Saving Water at Home
• Water efficiency
Waste Reduction at Home
• Aware that helps the environment
Apart from incorporating building strategies to transform your house to one green, detailed below some small steps to green remodeling (the numbers are average reductions of CO2 per year).
1. Change five incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescent bulbs in your home. Replacing incandescent bulbs of 75 W with 19 W CFLs can cut 275 lbs (125 kg) of CO2.
2. Replace refrigerators that are over 10 years old, with new more efficient Energy Star models and save more than 500 lbs (227 kg) of CO2.
3. Reduce your shower ten minutes to five minutes and save 513 lbs (233) of CO2.
4. Put slots sealants and insulation to your home. If you use natural gas heating, fail to deliver 639 lbs (290 kg) of CO2 into the atmosphere (472 lbs, 215 kg for electric heating). And this summer, you’ll save 226 lbs (103 kg) of air conditioning use.
5. Dry your clothes outdoors or indoors. If you dry half your clothes outdoors, fail to deliver 723 lbs (328 kg) of CO2.
6. To meet its energy needs, to support renewable energy sources like wind, solar, tidal and other sources that are being developed to prevent global warming.
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