Save Energy With a New Roof

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Introduction:

The price of maintaining a good home is not what it used to be. It takes so much energy to keep your air conditioners on that you might consider keeping it off. There’s a way to reduce your spending, this is by switching some of your home materials in energy-friendly products. Here’s how to conserve energy with your new roof.

How to Make Your Home more Energy-Friendly:

  • Buy energy-friendly materials: When purchasing building materials for your new roof, make sure to use energy-conserving products. They cost a little more, but their effects on the environment will help reduce the cost of keeping you cool. Choose the color and material according to your location; lighter colored roofs will help deflect more heat from your home. 
  • Read up on ‘Cool Roof’ Options: If you have never heard of the cool roof, you should read up on it. This is a roof that helps deflect sunshine and absorb less heat compared to a standard roof. Investing in a ‘cool roof’ could mean lower electric bills because you won’t have to use your air conditioners as much.
  • Invest in Good Insulation: You will notice that the change of seasons also means that there are changes in your insulation. Basically, during the summer the heat tries to get in and during the winter, it tries to get out. If you have good insulation, you can avoid having to adjust to the seasons. With a good roof with proper insulation, you can renovate your home and keep cool at the same time.
  • Keep Your Roof Ventilated: Now, this may seem counterintuitive to what we previously said about keeping your home insulated; but hear us out. Your roof needs proper ventilation to prevent the accumulation of dust or even molds. Your roof is exposed to outer elements, and it’s important that fresh air circulates so it doesn’t end up collecting dust and mold.
  • Consider Your Roof Color: When you wear dark colors, you will notice that you absorb heat more often than someone wearing lighter colors. This is because dark colors tend to absorb heat more and it doesn’t reflect sunlight. The same goes for your shingles color, if you paint it darker, it will definitely absorb more heat and more sunlight. 
  • Use Sustainable Materials for Your Roof: Whether you live in a coastal area or even a colder area, it’s a good idea to build a roof that can take your environment. Wooden shingles are not enough and you should consider the materials you buy. Even if it’s a new roof or a re-roof you should invest in your materials. 

Why Energy Conservation is Important:

Let’s face it, having your air conditioners on is getting too expensive. If you’re paying thousands just to stay cool, then you might as well just invest in energy-conserving materials rather than sustaining the electric bills. It may cost more to buy energy-conserving materials but it lasts longer and is more cost-effective for you as a home-owner. 

Aside from that, you save so much on your electric bill. The importance of refurbishing your new roof is that it will help reduce costs. There’s so much that you can invest in if you’re not paying for extremely high electric bills.

Key Takeaways:

Having your roof redone can seem like a huge cost, but it costs more to be paying for an electric bill monthly, that is so high because of your air conditioner. It’s much better to invest in a cool roof and reduce your electric bill than sustaining that monthly cost. Here’s how to conserve energy with your new roof.

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Why Companies Should Practice Conservation

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Companies large and small have an impact on the environment. How big this impact is, depends on their willingness to practice conservation. Environmentally conscious individuals are using more discretion when it comes to supporting eco friendly companies.

There are many ways practicing conservation can impact a company’s bottom line. More importantly, the positive long-lasting impact on the environment can be enormous.

Reduce Costs by Recycling and Reusing

Take stock of the office supplies and materials that are used daily. Is it possible to use recyclable material? Can you encourage employees to reuse items such as scrap paper? Make a simple change to go paperless on office memos.

If printing can’t be avoided, encourage double sided printing. Making the most of the materials that are accessible will eliminate waste in the environment. Come up with creative ways to encourage sustainability around the workplace.

Share your efforts!

Environmentally friendly companies should shout from the rooftops all the ways they are making a difference. Informed customers want to learn about the choice’s companies are making. Make your commitment to being an eco-friendly company marketable. This will play a major part in their decision to become your customer. You can even help other people see how fun it can be to save earth’s resources.

Share all the way ways your practice conservation with your team. Employees will feel like they are part of a bigger effort. In turn, this will lead to an increased morale among employees, and they will be more likely to work as a team to practice conservation in the workplace. Share these tips (input conservation is fun article) with your employees to encourage a green way of living.

Shop Green

Similar to how your customers choose to do business with you based on being a green company, take a look at which suppliers you are supporting with your purchases. Make smart purchases that reduce environmental impact and can be recycled.

The Bottom Line

Being environmentally aware is going to eliminate waste, preserve natural resources, and encourage your buyers to want to use your products. Companies are becoming increasingly aware of how their reputation can be tied directly to the conservation efforts they put into practice.

More and more consumers are choosing to shop with companies that practice conservation. They want to use products and services they can feel good about, and know that their choice is not impacting the environment in a negative way. Profit will increase along with customer satisfaction by companies practicing conservation.

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Why Conservation Can Be Fun

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Sometimes, conservation creates thoughts of stuffy politicians, or hard to understand scientific studies. Conservation at its core is actually very easy to put into action. More importantly, making conservation fun can help express your outlook on conserving the world around us. Here are a few ways you can make conservation fun while still making an impact!

Design a Compost Bin

Our landfills are overflowing, and every day more waste is added. Compost bins can be created with every-day items. They are an affordable, creative way that you can minimize your impact on the environment by keeping compost out of the landfills.

Wire mesh is a popular compost bin material. Adding wood elements to the wire mesh can make for a sturdy compost bin. A simple compost bin can made from a trash can or plastic container by adding holes. Another option is to use brick pavers to build your compost bin

Organize A Trash Pickup Day

Gathering friends and family for a noble cause is always a fun way to promote conservation. Get outside and visit your local parks, creeks, or hiking trails to pick up the waste in the area. Be sure to wear rubber gloves because you never know what you might come across. This is also great opportunity to teach children the value of preserving nature, animals, and the world around us.

Additionally, bring a trash bag wherever you go. Unfortunately, the opportunities to clean up our local communities are endless and every effort you make goes a long way to help the environment.

Conserve Water!

Believe it or not, it is fun to challenge yourself to save as much water as possible. There are quite a few creative ways to conserve water.

  • Start by collecting cold water to use for plants as you are waiting for the water to turn hot.
  • Weed your yard and garden! Weeds draw water the same as other plants, eliminate them so your water is going to the plants that need the nourishment.
  • Using a rain barrel to conserve and reuse water
  • Shorten your showers and eliminate baths altogether.

Check out (https://wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve/) this water conservation website for even more ideas

Give Up Plastic!

Ditch the plastic water bottle and opt for a reusable one. Use straw alternatives. The list for this goes on and on. Given how much pollution is caused by plastic, this one is a no brainer. Encourage others to do the same!

Eat Local

Shop the local farmer’s markets and family owned restaurants in your area. This is an easy way to become more immersed in the culture of your area and support small business practices. More of this money goes to your local community, so spend it where it counts!

Turn Conservation into A Game

Turned a light off that was left on? Made dinner using only fresh local sourced vegetables? Watered your magnolias using water from your rain barrel? These are all incredible ways to make conservation fun, so why not come up with a point system and challenge your friends and family to compete through out the day or week. Make a chart to mark your progress and have a fun conservation reward for the winner!

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