Painting your home or office building roof a light color or installing white shingles helps to reflect heat—and reduces cooling costs. [snip] If white shingles aren’t your style, manufacturers also offer heat-reflective coatings in darker colors for shingles, tiles and metal roofs.Go check out the rest of the tips. I'll put up more from Scientific American, from their March 2009 issue on environmental issues, Earth 3.0, tomorrow.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
From Scientific American
Scientific American has a great slideshow up, 9 Ecofriendly Household Tips (although I think it's actually 8 tips). From the slideshow:
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