May 24 2008
Fixing Up a Place
Our house is doing pretty well at the moment about conserving things, about the only problem we’re having is conserving water, partly because my son likes to sneak outside and play with the hose, and partly because the plumbing fixtures out there leak when they’re put on, so while you have water coming out of the hose, it’s also leaking out around the head of the tap and where the hose meets the tap at the same time.
So, one of the things I want to do is fix the taps so that they don’t leak. We’re using a well, so while we don’t have to pay for all the leaking water the environment will.
The other thing I’m going to do, and keep forgetting to do is put a bottle full of sand in each of our toilet cisterns so that we don’t use as much water each time we flush. Simple but effective.
We try to recycle what we can, turn lights off, close doors, turn the thermostat down etc. As there is only 2 of us and we have a large garden, composting and growing our own food is easy. We don’t ever fly, (as I’m scared of flying) and we only drive occasionally. I think our carbon footprint will be quite small. We all need to do our bit.