How Remodeling Your House Can Help The Planet

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Peven years. Some call it a hoax, while
scientists are alarmed. If you
How Remodeling Your House Can Help The Planet
ollution, climate change, global warming these
are all buzzwords you
have probably heard more than several times in
the past months or

• have watched the latest Blue Planet series, you
  must be seriously distressed by now. On every
  other day, we emit 110 million tons of pollution
  and thus heat causing global warming, into the
  atmosphere1. This is a massive number it can be
  compared to the equivalent of 400,000 Hiroshima
  bombs being detonated every single day.
• Why does the heat have so much power to disrupt
  our entire global community? Simple, because it
  disrupts the natural hydrological cycles leading
  to a chain of events, from drought and fire in
  some areas to stronger storms and floods. This
  unfolds tragedies with many species of animals
  becoming endangered or substantially decreasing
  in numbers, to refugee crises and political
  instability.
• The good news is that action can still be taken
  against it, and at its core it is our
  responsibility as inhabitants of the Planet to
  take it.
• Change starts at home
• From things like cycling and using public
  transportation instead of your car, or reducing
  food waste and recycling, to trying to waste less
  water and energy, there are many ways you can
  start helping right now. If you are remodelling
  your house or plan on doing it any time soon, why
  not weigh in how you can also benefit the planet?
• Setting up an external wall insulation can
  prevent up to 40 of heat being lost from the
  house2. This will help keep cool during those
  warm summer days, and warm during the wintery
  cold ones, not to mention the lower bill. You can
  also go for a water conserving system for the
  kitchen and bathroom. Installing solar panels
  if possible, might sound expensive, but in
  long-term it has proven to be cost efficient and
  a great way of using renewable energy. Choose an
  eco-friendly paint to prevent chemical
  ingredients from evaporating into the atmosphere
  as the paint is getting dry.
• When making decisions about your furniture, try
  to think about how you can refresh it instead of
  replacing it. If it is truly the case you want a
  different
• 1http//www3.weforum.org/docs/GRR17_Report_web.pdf
  2https//www.thegreenage.co.uk/energy-saving-fact
  s-and-figures/

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one, donate what you have and try to buy
reclaimed ones.Another sustainable idea for both
you and the environment is focusing on energy
saving when remodelling. Think about how you can
allow more natural light and make best use of it.
Take into consideration changing those old
halogen bulbs to LED ones. They use as much as
90 less energy! It may not sound like much and
there is a tendency of disbelief in the so-
called snowball effect to happen, but small
streams make great rivers. By doing things like
just by keeping in mind some eco-friendly facts
when you are remodelling your house will make a
difference. Source http//davidalandesign.org/how
-remodeling-your-house-can-help- the-planet/