It’s understandable to have concerns y feel anxious about climate change when you’re constantly bombarded con doom-and-gloom stories on the news. You may también think that you, as one person, cannot make any difference on this issue. Fortunately, there are several easy things you can do, both around your hogar y how you live your life that can help combat the issue de climate change en your own small way without requiring you to get involved politically o become an activist. Here are five steps you can take to help reduce your carbon footprint.
1. Get Regular HVAC Mantenimiento
One de the very best things you can do to lower your carbon footprint is to get regular tune-ups para your heating y cooling units. When you invest en routine mantenimiento, this will help your HVAC system operate more efficiently. When your comfort systems run more efficiently, they’ll use less energy. Not only will this help you save on your utility bills, but reducing the amount de energy you use will también help lower your carbon footprint.
The experienciad team at Fullerton can help con our Fullerton Mantenimiento Program. With this, you’ll get biannual tune-ups where our technicians will check para things like dirty filters, wear y tear, loose connections, y refrigerant levels.
2. Monitor Your Thermostat Settings
In the hot climate de Fullerton, you’ll use your air conditioner a lot more than your furnace each year. We understand the temptation to set your thermostat as cold as possible y crank your AC through the summer, when temperatures routinely exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. However, running your air conditioner nearly nonstop will result en abnormally high energy bills.
The Environmental Protection Agency recommends setting your thermostat at 78 degrees during the summer. This might not sound like it will get your hogar cool, but it will, y you’ll save energy at the same time. If you have ceiling fans, you can get those going y turn up the thermostat an additional few degrees, y your hogar will still remain cool y comfortable enough.
3. Invest en a Termostato inteligente
If you live en an older house, o a house con an aging HVAC system, chances are you have an analog thermostat. While these are fine para setting the temperature y turning the system on y off, there’s not much more they can do. A smart thermostat offers features y functions older thermostats don’t have.
With a smart thermostat, you can control your heating y cooling units right de your smartphone. Not only can you turn the system on y off remotely, but you can también adjust y program the temperature accordingly. Lower the temperature setting, o turn off the system entirely, when you leave para work, y then turn it back on before you return hogar. Reducing the energy usage de your HVAC system will help lower your carbon footprint.
4. Turn Off Lights y Devices Not en Use
If you’ve spent a few days to a week o more out de your hogar on a trip, you probably turned off the lights at hogar as well as unplugged some, o all, de your electronics before you left. This is good, but you don’t have to just do this right before a vacation. Start incorporating this practice into your day-to-day life.
Go around your hogar y take inventory de devices y appliances you don’t use that often. Keeping things plugged en uses electricity, even if you don’t actually turn them on. Unplug seldom-used devices y only plug them back en when you intend to use them.
The same goes para lights. If you’re at hogar during the middle de the day, you probably don’t need that many lights turned on, if any. Open up the window blinds o pull the drapes aside y let natural light flow into your hogar.
5. Shop para Food Locally
When you buy food de a local merchant, you’re not just helping out a member de your community; you’re helping lower your carbon footprint.
Big retailers rely on trucks para deliveries, y these trucks often have to make trips de hundreds de miles to get to their destination. Shopping locally means you’re buying de retailers that grow o produce their food at their own farms. This means little, o no, need para transporting those goods. Taking trucks off the roads means a reduction en emissions released into the atmosphere.
Your HVAC Team en Fullerton
At Fullerton, we’ve served Fullerton y the Fullerton Valley desde 2008. We have NATE-certified technicians, y we offer free estimates para instalacións y replacements. In addition to heating y cooling system mantenimiento y instalación, we can reparación your units. We también offer indoor air quality servicios. Contact us hoy!
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