My hubby & I make every effort to minimize our carbon footprint.
- We try to live a certainly environmentally friendly & basic lifestyle.
We either walk, ride or bicycles or take public conveyation. We don’t own a automobile of our own. We compost our kitchen waste & use it to fertilize a vegetable garden & fruit orchard. We have a rain barrel that every one of us use for watering purposes. Along with recycling, every one of us take luck of Energy Star rated appliances, windows, doors & light bulbs. We also heat & cool our beach house with a geothermal system. The geothermal heat pump & underground loop program were rather high-priced to purchase & install. However, every one of us got help from tax incentives & rebates. Plus the program achieves upwards of 400% efficiency ratings, for every single component of energy the component requires to operate, it produces several units of energy, because of the incredible savings on our utility bills, we’ve recovered the higher start-up costs in under several years. Along with trimming heating & cooling costs, the geothermal heat pump provides a virtually free source of domestic hot water. It utilizes the free & renewable energy source underground, burns no fossil fuels & creates no greenhouse gases. The heat pump provides ideal year round comfort, quiet operation & healthy air quality, however our only expense is the little bit of energy the program draws. We are now looking into solar panels that would supply a free source of electricity to power our household appliances, my hubby & I are determined to do everything possible to protect our environment.