Houzz Quiz: How Eco-Friendly Is your Lifestyle?
Are your habits good for the planet, or do you produce a huge amount of CO2? Take this quiz to find out
Helle Sindal
5 June 2019
1. These days, everything from homes to appliances come with energy-efficiency ratings. Do you check these ratings?
2. The wind rushes ice-cold through the gaps in your home’s old windows. What do you do?
3. You need some furniture. What will you do?
4. Entertainment technology like TVs, computers and game consoles are some of the biggest household energy guzzlers. What do you do to minimise how much energy you use for entertainment?
5. Water is a scarce resource. One of the places you can save is the bathroom: a regular showerhead uses about 10 to 20 litres of water per minute, so daily 10-minute showers can amount to as much as 73,000 litres of water a year. On the other hand, a high-efficiency showerhead uses six to 10 litres of water per minute. Have you installed one in your bathroom?
6. A heat pump can be a climate-friendly alternative to other heating systems. But what is a heat pump?
7. What are your priorities when building a new home?
8. What do you think about when choosing light bulbs for your lamps?
9. You can reduce your power consumption by up to 55 percent by using the washing machine at 30°C instead of 60°C.* What are your laundry habits?
10. Does the global climate influence how you grow plants in your garden or on your balcony?
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Wekaheights, where did you source your composting toilet waste system? I’m finding it difficult to obtain info on chemical free waste water treatment system for where I live (south Australia)
I think it is astounding that our government has a love affair with urban sprawl. If there was no further housing developments but rather high rise apartments, People would be less reliant on private transport such as cars, People would consume less maintaining their yards (including emissions from power tools). Less greenhouse gasses and resources going into the individualised infrastructure. We would have more people sharing common resources such as parks, town centres and public transport.
All urban sprawl does is deforestation and creates dormitory suburbs as people have to work up to 100km away as there are not enough jobs in suburbia to sustain their populations.
Nice idea