engaging in climate change(at home)

There are many different ways to be apart of going against climate change and it starts with the way we live at home.The better we can take care of our earth starts with the households of all and how we can do our best to save energy.Some ways that we conserve energy already in my house is by unpluging all of our appliances when not in use.My mom always tells us to do this in our house so that we can save on our bills,but little do we realize or keep in mind that this is also helping us conserve energy.Another thing we do is turn off all the lights in the rooms we are not useing at the time or is not occupied.There are also many things that we can do in my family to improve our saving on energy.For example,in my family,we take very long showers at times,and there are more than two people in our house,so thats allot of water.Instead of taking long showers,to save energy on our water,we can shorten those showers to a matter of five minutes.This way,we save our time and energy.I also am not aware sometimes that when I get up in the morning to brush my teeth,i let the water run long as im brushing my teeth.But instead,i can just close the water when brushing my teeth and only use it when i am going to rinse.This way,i save that energy.Also,when our family is going to do laundry,either at home or at the laundromat,we mostly wash our clothes in cold or warm water,which is a good thing,because we also save energy in this way.To improve i would say that we should do more to wash our clothes in cold water.As we know,water and energy are closely related.It takes allot of energy to heat and pump water,and it also takes allot of water to cool systems that generate energy.Things we can do to further benefit the earth at home can be to conduct a water audit in our facility.This way,we can find out where the water we are using is being used and where its being wasted.Our buildings consume of more than twenty percent of the worlds available water.We also can be aware of how much we flush the tiolet in our bathrooms.But besides water,we can also be aware in my house of not leaving the air conditioner on for too long,and if we are going to use it in the summer,we make sure to put it on the option that says "energy saver".We can also use solar power to help heat up our house instead of heaters or anything else.When we burn fossil fuels like coal,natural gas and oil,it makes allot of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmospher,causing hram to the earth. Conserving energy in our household helps benifit the enviornment by decreasing that harm it is causing to the enviornment.Saving energy wont garentee anything about saving the earth perfectly in everyway,but it does help prolongue the process of all our ecosystems collapsing because of our over use of fossil fuels that cant be renewable.



Here in this picture,this is one option of conserving energy in the lightbulb you choose.Chooseing florescent lights saves energy.





http://www.makeyourbuildingswork.com/efficiency-tips/conserving-water/