How Going Green can make your Home Enviromentally Friendly and Energy Efficient.

Going green can make your home more sustainable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

The quickest and easiest place to start is with ceiling fans in the main rooms of your house. They are easy to install and do not cost very much for the benefit of sustainable cooling and comfort they provide. We have ceiling fans in every bedroom of our home and one in the family room. We leave them on constantly during the spring, summer and fall months. They don't pull much power so the cost to run them is very inexpensive. We live in southern California and it is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit as I am composing this and it is the middle of November.

Double pain windows is another good way to make your home more energy efficient and to lower your heating and cooling cost. They do cost quite a lot to buy and have them installed. We upgrade all of our upstairs windows two years ago and it does make it more comfortable in the summer and winter months.

We upgraded our old soft water system with an Aquasana whole house water treatment system. The main reasons we decided on this system was
1st The quality of the water and the system.

2nd The price to generate a gallon of drinkable water.

3rd It use a three stage filter system to give you soft and drinkable water that tastes good and makes your cleaning easier to do.

4th It doesn't use any salt to clean the water so it doesn't cause any water pollution.

We did have a passive hot water system on our roof when our children were in high school and the Marines. Our oldest son would bring his buddies home for the week end and they could go through a lot of hot water in a very short time. Well the passive hot water system and our water heater were able to keep up with them and we never ran out of hot water. The solar hot water panels worked great and heated the water very efficiently, unfortunately the water storage tanks that were installed above the panels started to leak as they rusted out. I finally had to take them down because of the tanks. I have kept the solar panels and I plan on using them again at a new place when we retire.

Other ways of going green that can make your solar home more environmentally friendly is to add solar electric panels and or wind turbines to generate electricity. We will begin building and evaluating some of these systems. I will generate and evaluation reports and recommendations as we complete each project.

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