As most of you know, our gas emmission from cars and homes and factories is out of control. The new lower standards are starting to become more and more possible, especially in the way of homes.
Some experts say that weatherizing homes is actually the easiest and fastest way to get energy emissions down to a reasonable level. With homes there are easy ways to fix just a few problems and lower the home owners bills, and lower the amount that they actually use the a/c and heater.
Obama has put in one of the stimulus packages to lower utility bills in around 2 million homes and he has seta side $6 billion to weatherize low-income homes. I'm not sure if that is still in the stimulus package that was signed or whatever, I couldnt find that.
Weatherizing homes and making them more efficient is creating jobs for communities because many people want this to be happening to they get a lot of outside support and companies can bring on new people to help will the additional work of getting these homes taken care of.
A few reasons why weatherizing homes is going to be fairly not complicated is because there are many instruments that can measure wind flow in a house and use heat-sensitive guns to show where there are cracks in a wall or where the insulation is not sealed. Using those instruments and fixing the problems will cause people to let less cold/warm air out of their house and they can lower the heater/ac and actually keep the air inside their house and that will lower the amount going out into the air and it will lower their bills because they dont need to use as much.
In just one visit to these homes companies can lower the energy useage by 10-20% when is pretty amazing, imagine if that could happen to every house, imagine how much less crap homes would send into the air, and how much lower peoples' energy bills would be.
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I think any great strides toward reducing our environmental impact as a whole are going to have to come from the choices we make as individuals, like weatherizing homes. Living in an apartment or residence hall like many of us do reduces our environmental impact, but there are still things we can do to reduce our impact.
Because utilities are included in housing, most students will take long hot showers, leave lights on, leave the water on, open the windows and simultaneously have the heat on, etc.
This costs the University and unbeknownst to most students, indirectly raises their tuition and housing expense.
As part of a greater effort from the University, Housing is trying to encourage students to be more sensible in their utility usage. You'll probably start seeing signs to remind students to turn off the lights and shut down the computers when not in use.
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