Energy Efficient Home Design

Your friends are calling you and you run out, locking the doors, but forgetting to turn off the lights, fans and geyser. You don’t care as you can pay for the electricity bill. Two kilometers down the road, there is a slum and the people are burning plastic, wood and tyres for some light and warmth. Don’t you think that the energy that you are wasting in your home could have been invested better here, so that poor people would’t have to burn anything and increase the carbon emission? With energy production on a downward spiral and its demand increasing day by day, it makes sense that we use as less of it as possible. In our day-to-day life, we use energy without even giving a thought to where it goes. We forget that the energy we use so luxuriously is produced with a considerable harm to the environment. If we use less of energy, we would be minimizing the dangerous destruction that is being caused to the environment. After all, our survival depends on the survival of the ecology and we must do our utmost to protect it. The first step towards this would be an energy efficient home. Imagine a house that stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer, but uses minimum electricity. Think of the amount of energy that can be thus saved and  diverted towards other uses. So, if you are now looking for an energy efficient home design, check out the tips that follow.