Reducing your home’s carbon footprint
When it comes to water use, install a water-filtration system on the kitchen sink’s tap rather than buying bottled water. Bottled water leaves a huge footprint being bottled in one location and then shipped all over. Use cold water when washing clothes that don’t require warm or hot water. Make sure to use the water heater’s “vacation” setting when the heater is not in use for extended periods of time. Get rid of the microwave. Frozen foods are actually more energy intensive in ways similar to bottled water. The footprint grows deeper as foods are kept frozen while shipped or put on display a local grocery stores before finally arriving in the refrigerator’s freezer. Cook fresh food on a stove using a clean energy source like natural gas.
According to the Department of Energy, 90 percent of the natural gas delivered to a home setting can be used whereas electricity loses more than two-thirds of its usable energy in its generation and transmission from the producer to the customer.
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