Care of the home environment
Home Improvement June 9th, 2010
Environmental awareness campaign has become a worldwide movement. Awareness about the importance of harmonious living environment for present and future is already understood by most people. However, put them into everyday life becomes a big question. From where to start?
The answer to these questions are of ourselves. It’s time to start with the things around us. Trying to care about the environment in which we live. Starting from the house through the personal touches of every resident who seems trivial but it can make a difference.
Most important environmental problems is rubbish. Largest source of waste is household waste. Every day we have the garbage, be it in the form of organic and non organic. And when we throw it away, it does not mean trash disappear.
Type of organic waste decomposing ability aided by bacteria, but non-organic waste annually take even decades to unravel. Some types even produce pollutants that have contaminated the soil and air. Initial step to separate these two types of garbage disposal in an effort to facilitate the processing of waste and ease the burden of the earth to extract the non-organic waste.
Besides the waste, the care home environment in attention to many aspects of planning. Such as providing good sewer line, has a water catchment wells, and there are quite a lot of vegetation. The contribution may seem trivial, but that is where the beginning of an effort to keep the soil conditions, ground water supplies, to tercukupinya oxygen in the home environment.
Meanwhile, in a tropical climate that demands a response design capable of utilizing the potential of nature.
Waste separation by type of feed the efforts of Meru-the easiest to do from home. (Source: http://www.bikudo.com)
Cross ventilation is commonly used in tropical house to maximize cooling to room temperature as well as provide natural lighting. (Source: http://www.kogarah.nsw.gov.au) Installation of appropriate Septictank able to avoid bacterial contamination of water sources colli on your net. (Source: http://www.make-my-own-house.com)
Houses with cross-ventilation design or a good natural penghawaan not only take advantage of environmental conditions such as wind speed and take advantage of sunlight. These measures not only an attempt to save electricity for artificial penghawaan and lighting of the room, but also reduce the risk of danger of ozone-ac-machines for the earth’s atmosphere.
Simple action of basic awareness about saving the environment could in fact start from home. The issue was the effect of punching holes in the glass layer of the earth’s atmosphere also started from the decisions made for our house. Until one day green roof (green roof) into the discourse that needs to be developed in each house, as such, no longer there are fears that the city would be the lack of green open space and water catchment areas. Meanwhile, along with all of that, increasing the risk of water and soil pollution are also reduced. Everything to earth again smiled and gave countless comforts.
