This graph from Energy.gov shows where the average home energy use goes. The largest combined item is heating and cooling the home.
This image from Energy.gov shows where air leaks can be stopped to reduce the home’s heating and cooling costs. We are working on these to noticeably reduce our yearly energy budget, and to reduce our carbon footprint. Here in the south we spend the reverse proportions on cooling and heating.
Parsley bigger than it was.
Our winter garden before the days started to noticably lengthen.
Some food, only the green of which was grown in our garden.
We are using fossil fuels to take the stored sunlight out of the ground to burn for quick and convenient energy right now. Every form of fossil fuel that is being burned is putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and contributing to global warming. Furthermore the methane that gets released, and is getting increasingly released as the methane ices in the Arctic thaw, are adding to the effect.
The only way we will be safe is to switch off fossil fuels immediately, and go to sustainable energy sources, such as solar and wind. We have to adhere to the energy budget we are given by the sun. Wind energy comes from the sun due to the differential heating and cooling, which causes air pressure differences, and the wind is the air movement to equalize these pressures.
It is common knowledge that it took millions of years to form those fuels which we are burning up in a blink of the eye. The green from out garden is a small part of what we eat. I do not want to have to depend on fossil fuels to get the rest of what I have to eat.
The back of the quilt,
Specially Hand Made by Janet.
My friend, who left this earth soon after Ike, was so good hearted, that she hand-made quilts and gave them away to many people. We were the lucky recipients of this quilt about 2 1/2 decades ago. I always loved quilts, because they have such a connotation of warmth, and they are so easily washed and dried to eliminate dust.
