How To Prevent Global Warming In Your Home

Learning how to prevent global warming in your on home is simple. The first thing for you to do is to understand which areas you should focus on the most. The biggest sources of global warming causing gases in most homes come from heating, cooling, and eletricity use for appliances and lighting.

How To Prevent Global Warming By Reducing Your Heating & Cooling

Preventing global warming in your home requires using less energy to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer, which means you need to find the places your home leaks air and plug those holes. Typical places that you'll find leaks are around windows and doors, which can easily be fixed with a little bit of weather stripping, making this the easiest way to help prevent global warming in your own home. Your windows cause a lot of heat loss, and cooling loss because windows are much less insulated than your walls, and this can be remedied with thermal curtains.

The recomendations above will help reduce your homes contribution to global warming a little bit, but if you really want to make a big dent in your carbon footprint, then you should consider doing more significant remodeling of your home to increase the insulation in your walls and roof, and to incorporate passive heating and cooling using the earth and the sun.

How To Prevent Global Warming By Using Less Electricity

Using less electricity is pretty simple if you are willing to make some changes in your daily life. The first thing to understand is that anything that heats up by using electricity requires a lot of energy, and it's best to find alternatives. Some examples of the kinds of appliances you want to avoide are toasters, irons, ovens, dryers, dishwashers, hair curlers, etc. Most of these kinds of technologies are easy enough to do without. You can hang your clothing as soon as you are done washing it and you'll eliminate your need to use a dryer for example.

Turning off lights and appliancs when they are not in use is also a very simple, and basic act that helps prevent global warming. Try putting up signs around your house to remind you and others to turn things of when they are not in use. Also, many appliances like DVD players still draw electricity even after you have turned them off. The way you can tell if an appliance is still drawing electricity after you turn it off is to see if there is still some sort of digital display or light that is on. If so, you are using electricity. To deal with this you can get power strips and plug your appliances into those and then turn off your power strips and you'll insure that now power is going to light a digital display.

Also, don't forget about compact florecent bulbs. They use a fraction of the electricty of a regular bulb and they'll save you money over the long term.

Understanding The Bigger Picture of Global Warming Prevention

With all the tips listed above you may loose site of the bigger picture. The important thing to remember is that the things that use the most energy are the ones that matter the most, and sadly for most people those things fall into three categories: heating and cooling, transportation, food.

I've explained how you can help prevent global warming in your own home, but by doing so I've left out two of the three biggest areas of people's carbon footprint, namely your transportation and your eating habits. Driving less, eating locally and eating lower on the food chain are also very important parts of your personal contribution to global warming. So, don't get too caught up in making sure everyone in your family always turns off the lights if you still drive to work every day. Keep the big picture in mind and then your actions will have a much bigger impact on helping to prevent global warming!