To find out more about ENERGY STAR rated homes visit http://www.energystar.gov/. Briefly, in a sentence, for a home to earn an ENERGY STAR rating it should be at least 15% more energy efficient than traditional homes. Because most homes use energy from coal fired power plants, about 16% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the US are from the energy used in homes. This raises an interesting point!
With a booming real estate market in India, I was wondering how much thought has been put into building energy efficient homes/offices. Isn’t this really an opportunity to incorporate green ways to generate energy into the very fabric of our society? How about building not just energy efficient but energy sufficient homes? I believe power in India is still supplied by state run bureaucratic, inefficient electricity boards. If an Indian home owner is given the choice of not having to deal with these electricity boards, would he/she not just jump on such an opportunity? Maybe all these things are unimportant in the Indian context. Homes probably emit only a fraction of the green house gases in India.
I doubt if right now global warming is at the top of our list of problems. However, with more than a billion people, it is likely that we are going to be one of the most affected due to climate changes in the world. It is for precisely this reason that we need to find a way to devote the resources, devise innovative solutions and reduce green house gas emissions.
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