Green home cooling mini series

The warmer part of summer draws near in the northern hemisphere. Air conditioners left and right are whirring to life, working hard to keep people cool.

In doing so, they’re not only spending energy and money all willy-nilly, they’re also producing air that is less healthy and comfortable to live in than naturally regulated air is.

Luckily, there are ways to reduce – sometimes even remove – the need for air conditioners. Over the coming days, I’ll publish a mini series of posts on how to cool your home by more natural means.

Many of the techniques I’ll be writing about won’t cost you anything – and most won’t require any large-scale spending.

[UPDATE: The mini series is now done - click the links in the list below to see the individual posts]

• Great habits for green home cooling
  Simple techniques you can implement without spending any money at all. Nothing to buy, just stuff to do.
• Effective shading for green home cooling
  ‘Shading devices’ (curtains, blinds, awnings etc), and in what situations the various types are best put to use
• Best windows for green home cooling
  Not all windows are created alike. This post helps you choose the right ones.
• Green home cooling: The rest of the building
  The windows aren’t the only place in your home exposed to unwanted heat issues. This post helps you pinpoint candidates for improvement.
• Stuff for green home cooling
  How your light bulbs, refrigerator and other objects will affect the indoor temperature and what you can do about it.
• Landscaping and gardening for green home cooling
  How you can use plants and landscaping to significantly improve the cooling performance of your home.

I hope the tips I provide will help you get away with running your airconditioner a lot less, perhaps even shutting it off entirely.

As always with these things, feel free to go wild in the comments section if you want to speak your mind or leave a tip I’ve left out.

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