Daily Home Renovation Tips

Today I’d like to write about the newest addition to the Energy Conservation area of our blog roll, Earth Hour.

Now wait.  This is not some 2 week late attempt to get you to participate.

Rather, it’s to inform you of another area where the average home owner can go to obtain information on energy conservation tips for the home.

Did you know that the Earth Hour web site has a section dedicated for the home?  Likely not. And, you wouldn’t be alone. The Earth Hour 1 hour challenge on March 29, 2008 not only heavily focused our attention on the one hour, but their web site was so inundated with hits that it was very, very slow to respond. A great thing, I think, to show how much the initiative took off in the weeks immediately preceding 8 pm local time on March 29th.

However, what good will your actions between 8 and 9 pm local time on that day serve if you don’t continue to practice energy conservation?

So, the At Home web page of Earth Hour has tips for sustainable living for home owners, including a zerofootprint One Minute Calculator that is pretty cool and easy to use. Based on your commuting, air flights, eating and home tendencies, this One Minute Calculator gives you a quick glance the amount of tonnes of CO2 you personally generate. It also has access for a much more detailed tool if you wish.

There are also other areas of energy conservation suggestions at work and at school. And, the Earth Hour blog has lots and lots of posting about what others are doing to help give you ideas that you can use.

What I like about this site is that it is not ‘preachy’ or full of complicated numbers that most folks, like me, either don’t understand or, again like me, don’t have the patience to understand.

And, I would not be surprised if they provided even more substance to the site.

So, remember the intentions of Earch Hour on March 29th. Give the site a visit. You may be pleasantly surprised by what you find there and how it can help you remember to take the reduction of non-renewable resource consumption into your home renovation and remodeling activities.