Home Energy Conservation 101
Create a healthy home for you, your family and the environment
You turn off the lights when you leave a room? Great. Your kids have been raised to reduce, reuse and recycle? Even better. But what about your home? Do you know what you can do to create a healthier, more environmentally friendly home for you and your family? Read on to find out what's really going on under your roof and what you can do about it.
You know your shoe size. What about the size of your carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is a tool that helps us look at our impact on the earth — the resources we consume and the resulting waste and how that contributes to global warming. Your carbon footprint is a calculation of the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by your daily activities — think of it as the tailpipe of everything in your life. How you travel and what you buy have their own environmental impact. Carbon footprints help us see how we impact the environment and show us where we can make changes for our benefit and for the earth.
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