decreasing the carbon footprint of your home?
i am writing a paper about this for my english class. but i need some help finding some good sites. the most trustable sites are preferred. and no wiki of course haha.
in my paper i am trying to prove that decreasing your home’s carbon footprint will lower energy bills and wont contribute as much to climate change. this IS true, right???
-what else does lowering your home’s carbon footprint positively affect?
-i need to be fair in my paper, so is there any way that reducing your home’s carbon footprint will affect the lives of people who do not believe in climate change?
-how much does your carbon footprint help with climate change?
-have there been problems in attempts in the past?
-how does this act really lower energy bills?
-so really, what all is good about lowering your home’s carbon footprint?
thanks for helping, and listing sites!!!!!!!!!!
Well your terminology is somewhat vague. In my understanding a house has no carbon footprint nor do a car, the use of items does. From what i gather, you are taking an economic tack at the issue, that’s good, because economics is the basis for civilization. I’m not going to do your homework, but their is a concept called Return on Investment, or ROI. Can one reduce there electric or gas bill but investing in other technology, sure, but at what cost? How long will the decrease in the utility bill take to pay off the investment in the new technology? What is the depreciation on the investment?
Your premise is false, I could sent you to a hundred sites telling you are right, but that’s just not the case. Normally i don’t like to send people to environmental activists for advise, but in this case Sachs has it dead on, and his points can be applied to any aspect of pollution reduction.
If you are referring to Cap and Trade–According to the current President’s statement prior to getting elected. It WON’T lower your energy bills. It will raise them. How much? That will depend on who you ask. They estimates on home energy usage cost increases range from about $1000 @ year to $3000 @ year.
Now this does not take into account how much the increased costs on companies will increase the prices on their goods. Remember Cap and Trade involves a tax. And indirectly it’s the end user that pays ALL taxes.
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