Build A Green Home!

This wonderful ecological house , 100% from wood, it is built out of unplanned, uncut wood piled on top of each other meaning it is basically a pile of lumber. The only neighbour is nature. This amazing house has no foundation.

I think it is a unique experience to live in such an ecological house, and if i will have the possibility, I will try to sleep one night at least, even as I could build one. If everyone would contribute to his home even with an environmental object, the nature will be more clean.

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In this article i learn you how to make you home s little greener for saving the environment and also the planet. Some changes in your house can go a long way to combat both global warming and high energy bills.

Step 1: Change your incandescent light bulbs that probably you got at the grocery store with qualified compact fluorescent light bulbs. You’ll save $100 per year by replacing even your five most frequently used light bulbs. Greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by one trillion pounds–there are 12 zeros in a trillion if every family in the U.S.A. did this.

Step 2: You can save 10% on your cooling costs and heating by setting your thermostat back when you’re sleeping and while you’re not home. Read the rest of this entry »

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As the energy consumption got bigger and bigger during the last decades, it has a more stronger impact on the environment as I write this. Each home consumes energy every year, and there are 1.85 million new homes built per year. Also, energy is consumed in building the home, as in sustaining the home’s comfort temperature, cooking, lighting, and powering several appliances every day. It is estimated that every home consumes about 12,800 kWh per year, and every homeowner gets out of his pocket about 1600$ yearly, just for having his newly or elder home heated and lightened properly, his kids playing on the computer all day, etc.

As for natural gas consumption, is goes to 69.000 cubic feet per household annually!

Building a house that is properly insulated from the exterior, having all the ducts thermally sealed, could save about 20% of the yearly consumption, making that home more easy to heat and more hard to cool down during the winter season. Almost the same story applies for the all-summer areas of the world, where a house has to maintain a maximum room temperature.

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