Homes as
businesses can also take measures to grow much more environmentally friendly. Here are a few steps to your
business as green as your home.
* Insulate pipes. Did you know that the insulation of hot water for Piper to reduce heat loss? Isolation and polyethylene is easy to repair, which leads to energy savings.
* Check in the solar system for hot water. Less than $ 15,000, you can reduce water heating costs by 50%.
* Change air filters. Filter former impede the flow of air which will make your heating and cooling
engine work harder. Filters should be changed at least every 3 months. Seasons heating and cooling, it is better to change your filters more often (once a month).
* Check in a combined heat and power program. Cogeneration systems simultaneously produce electricity and thermal energy (heat or steam for example) of the fuel source. Micro-CHP can be a smaller version created for the small business market. They operate on natural gas and has a
capacity of 5 megawatts, with a recovery rate of 20,000 BTUs of heat.
* If you have a foot in the freezer, you should consider the upgrade. The strip curtains and doors is cheap and easy to install. Did you know that strip curtains alone can avoid the infiltration of outside air of 75%? Often you can find discounts utility to cover immediate costs.
* Check in using a geothermal heat pump. Heat pumps reduce both costs and emissions. For example, Phillips 1966 is installed geothermal heat pump in the new Prairie Village, KS, service station and shop. By combining, freezers and refrigerators ice maker in the program, Phillips cut overall energy use and its HVAC system 40 per cent and an amortization period of two years.
* How can you change your light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps? Compact (CFLs) can reduce your lighting
energy consumption by 75%!
* Finally, the use of programmable thermostats. Something as simple as making use of your thermostat to automate the cooling of 72 degrees
Fahrenheit and warmer than 70 degrees Fahrenheit could save considerable sums. Based on U.S. Department of Energy, for every degree you lower your thermostat for a period of eight hours in winter, there is a correlation percentage of energy savings!
Our
homes and our
businesses are at the forefront of the green movement. Uniform organic bamboo towels, cloth napkins and do everything possible. Making small changes in aspects of our lives (personal and professional), we can make major changes in the
world.
Douglas Michaels Jr. wrote educational articles for Green Earth News, the authority on everything bamboo. For more information about Green
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