Just a quick follow-up to what I had previously posted, Slate Magazine is now voting on the best way to green your home. Thoughts?
Additionally, the cycle of waste-heat in my parent's apartment has been broken! Traditionally, the heat doesn't come on until mid-November (brrr!) and, as we're closer to the heat than others, it takes less heat to heat up our apartment, and more to heat the upstairs apartment, making our apartment a not-so-comfortable 80-something degrees! So, to counter this, we open the windows (I know, I know, terrible, shameful behavior), but what other option do we have? Management controls the heat and we can't expect our upstairs neighbors to go without heat, right?
Or so we thought. Recently, it has been discovered that our upstairs neighbors are likewise suffering because of too much heat-- they were putting up with it because they thought we didn't get enough heat! It is assumed that the management company doesn't want to have someone come in and change the heat settings all the time, so they just crank it up and forget about it. However, we now have the key to the basement so that we and the neighbors can turn down the heat, finally.
In other, heat-related news, instead of leaving it on until mid-May, management has turned off the heat at the very beginning of April. Progress!
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I like the ideas that would save energy and not require additional mechanical equipment or building materials. Doing away with the perfect lawn as an American suburban ideal and air drying washed clothing would save a significant amount of fossil fuel derived energy.
ReplyDeleteNow that the weather has turned, we can proudly display our undergarments to the neighbors.