| There has been a large push over the last decade to | | | | the environment. |
| promote green living. In essence, this green living is | | | | There are other ideas in the home building industry that |
| about reducing, reusing and recycling. It is about | | | | can help to reduce the use of the resources of the |
| minimizing the amount of impact that we are having on | | | | earth. There are things like the sun light and skylight |
| the environment. | | | | that are designed to bring more natural light into a |
| One of the ways that people are doing this is by using | | | | room during the day, reducing the need to turn on the |
| solar power. In fact, there are attic fans that are | | | | lights during the day. There is also things like toilets that |
| powered by solar energy. This makes a lot of sense | | | | use less water, shower heads that cut the amount |
| because they are mounted on the roof and get a lot | | | | water used to shower and others that are all designed |
| of sun. This can reduce the electricity that is used on | | | | to reduce or replace the resources that we use. |
| homes to cool the attic. Imagine if every home used | | | | These things are only as good as the determination of |
| these instead of fans that run from electricity. That | | | | the home owners to use them and to design them into |
| would be a large savings in energy and that can have | | | | the new homes that they build. Without that, they are |
| a large impact on the impact that we are having on | | | | useless. |