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Lots of good thoughts. Thanks.
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Woot!
That’s a great idea, thanks 🙂
I think we’re pretty good with our carbon footprint already but it never hurts to look and learn more ways to shrink it further!
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An interesting post, Deb! Despite temps at 90F, I have yet to use the AC this summer, though I have had the fan on low a few times. Keeping the front blinds closed during the day seems to help, and I turn off lights in rooms I’m not using. I also walk or take the bus a lot. The one thing I cannot do in my current apartment, however, is turn the heat down at night. I would literally freeze to death. I’m on an exposed NW corner, and at one time last winter had four heavy quilts on the bed and was still cold. I swear there is NO insulation in the northern wall.
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It’s interesting hearing from people all over the world – freezing is never a problem here! But our current house is badly designed – it’s literally a converted shed – so I’m very interested in designing houses that won’t need extra heating and cooling.
Hi Deb – I really like this post and would love to join in the carbon futures challenge but I’ll be in hospital next week for the arrival of baby number 3 so I don’t think I would get much out of it right now! I will be following along on the facebook group though to get some inspiration. We have made a lot of changes in our household in the last year or so to try and reduce our carbon footprint (walking more, better home insulation, more efficient lighting, heating etc.) but I know we still have a long way to go. Look forward to reading more.
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Congratulations on the bub, I think you’ve found a very good excuse 😉 We’ve started looking at it in the last year as the girls get older, so I’m interested to see what the challenge is like.
I love reading about this sort of thing. It makes me wonder and think about what I can do, but this I need more time to decide. Wonderful thought.
http://www.selfsagacity.com/2010/08/what-to-do-with-toddler-and-104-fever.html
I’m in! Sounds like a great plan. Thanks for sharing. Found you via FYBF
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Ive just filled in the form to participate but now I need to go back tomorrow and read properly as to what I need to do to make changes in our house 🙂 . Thanks for the link to this. I will friend your facebook page and keep up to date that way too 🙂
Thanks for letting us know about this challenge.
I just signed up. I selected transport as its the one area I know i need to focus on. Water and Energy were two of the areas we focused on early. We now have solar hot water, pv panels and rainwater tanks and keep an eye on our consumption. But transport i’ve been slack. I want to ride my bike or take public transport, but many mornings I’m running late and jump in the car.
I found footprint calclators a great way of identifying which areas to focus on first. I was surprised to learn that our ‘Food’ had the greatest ecological impact. So thats where i focused first.
The ACF calculator is also worth trying. http://www.acfonline.org.au/custom_greenhome/calculator.asp?section_id=86
Looking forward to playing along. 🙂
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