What is Energy Conservation?

Green Homes

To heal the world we can make your houses more environmentally friendly. We can all change the regular light bulbs to the Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFL) because they are eco-friendly. They use 50-80% less energy and cuts 70% off of regular lighting costs. Also, they last 4-10 times longer than regular ones and work in a cooler temperature (goinggreeny.com). If every American home replaced just one light bulb with a CFL light bulb, we would save enough energy to “light 3 million homes for a year, save about $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year, equivalent to those from about 800,000 cars” (energystar.gov). This can help the world and help you!


Also we can work with the temperatures in our homes and help maintain them. According to Green Wikia, “In the Summer up to 60% of cooling energy is lost through the windows. In the Winter up to 25% of heating energy is lost through the windows as well.” If you fix your old, weak and drafty windows to new sturdy and completely closed off windows you will save a ton of energy and stop continuously raising the heat or cooling. Also, add insulation in your walls, ceiling, flooring, and attic. Green Wikia goes on to state that, “Adding it to the ceiling and attic will save you 42% of energy! Adding it to your walls will save you 24% and adding insulation in the floor will save you 10% of energy.” This is so much energy that we can conserve. This will help you and the earth.

Here are some other ways that can make a big difference to the world. When you leave a room turn off the lights even if it’s for 1 minute! You can also save water when it’s running or not drinking all the water that you got for yourself. Use less paper! Pay your bills online and use recycled paper if needed. Be a recycle junkie! Use recycled bags and do compost. Instead of throwing paper, glass, and plastic in the garbage recycle them in the right way. Put trees and shrubs near your house so you can save energy. By planting trees they remove the bad air from the environment and create oxygen for us while also reducing global warming which is a huge helper! (http://realestate.msn.com)

St. Marks Seminar on Green Buildings

A seminar was organized by Blue Star at the ‘The Grand’ Vasant Kunj on 19.2.2013 on ‘Green Sustainable Buildings’ in which a talk was given by one of the most eminent architects Mr.Karan Grover. He talked about the importance of Heritage buildings and the perils of glass houses built by contemporary architects. These buildings increase the temperature inside, thereby increasing use of cooling equipments. Ms.M.Pathak and Ms.S.Kaur of St.Mark’s Sr.Sec.Public School, Meera Bagh, attended the workshop.