ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Save Money While Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
North East/Millerton’s recent “Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory“ found the combined impact of buildings and transportation to be almost 90% of green house gas emissions — approximately 40% from buildings and 50% from transportation.
Buildings
Most of the 40% emissions from buildings are for heating, cooling, hot water, and lighting. These days, cutting emissions and saving money go hand in hand. Consider these options:
- Heat Pumps for heating and cooling
- Heat Pump Water Heaters
- Community Solar
- Solar Roofs
- Home Interiors
- LED Lightbulbs
- Energy Advisors
Transportation
Everyone can take steps to reduce harmful transportation-related warming, which accounts for 50 percent of our local greenhouse-gas emissions. Over half of transportation emissions come from personal vehicles (cars and light-duty trucks) and the rest primarily from medium and heavy trucks.
It’s tough to reduce miles travelled in a rural area that lacks public transportation, but here are some things to consider:
