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Your Home and the Environment
No matter its size or location, your home has an impact on the environment. By using energy, water and building materials, your home contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and consumes natural, often non-renewable, resources. Yet there are many steps we can take to reduce the environmental footprint of our homes and make them more energy efficient. Doing so will not only reduce our impact on the environment, it will also help reduce household expenses.1
Making a Difference at Home
There's a lot to consider when it comes to making environmentally sound choices and changes for your home. In purchasing new energy-efficient appliances or renovating your home to improve energy-efficiency and overall environmental soundness there are up-front costs to pay before you begin to see the energy and cost-saving results of your investment.2
Other decisions may involve changing the way you live and doing without environmentally wasteful products that you often use for the sake of convenience. If you would like to make a difference in your home, it's important to make a plan that considers how much you're willing to invest and what you're willing to change. It’s easier than you think to make your home more efficient - helping you to save money and reduce your home’s impact on the environment. Learn more about Growing an Energy Efficient Home.
You can begin making your environmental home plan by considering how you use electricity, lighting, water and resources in every area of your home, from your kitchen to your laundry room, your garage to your yard. Studies show that the average household generates the majority of its greenhouse gas emissions through heating, air conditioning, lighting and appliances.3
1 Source: Natural Resources Canada: www.nrcan.gc.ca.
2 Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca.
3 Source: Natural Resources Canada, Office of Energy Efficiency: http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/.
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