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www.healthyindoors.com Vol. 6 No. 5, August, 2018
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6 | EDITORIAL— August 2018 Summer Edition
T
his month marks five years
since we launched Healthy
Indoors Magazine, back in
2013. "That sure went by fast," and
"it's been an interesting ride," seem
like appropriate comments from our
vantage point. We appreciate the
opportunity to continue to bring you
relevant information pertaining to
your indoor world.
I had a revelation the other day,
albeit, in circumstances a bit odd to
discuss here. Of course, I've never
been one for conventional formalities,
so I decided to write about it anyway.
Like perhaps many of you, I
sometimes get reflective and/or
creative thoughts during a nice hot
shower after a long day. Maybe it
serves as a brief respite from stress
and frees up my mind. Maybe I just
like singing in the steam (the acous-
tics are amazing in there!) In any
event, I had the following revelation:
We waste a lot of energy with some
of our daily habits.
Case in point—Temperature
and humidity control indoors. It's
been one of the hottest summers I
can remember here in upstate New
York, so our air conditioning has
been running almost non-stop since
May. Believing myself to be energy
conscious, I keep our home around
73 degrees. My bathroom tends to
feel a bit chilly from the AC during
showers though, so I turn on our old-
school ceiling heat lamps to warm
it up. I like a hot shower, so I crank
up the water temp, which creates a
lot of steam. I attempt to manage the
excessive steam and subsequent
condensation, by running an exhaust
fan to pull out the pre-cooled and
moisture-reduced, reheated then
moisture-infused air from my long
hot-water-wasting shower. I haven't
tried to calculate the amount of ener-
gy all this takes, but I'm pretty certain
it's excessive. And this is only one
example of my unintentional energy
gluttony.
This just made me wonder- what
little lifestyle tweaks can each of
us do to help reduce our individual
carbon footprints? There are prob-
ably dozens, most of which won't
adversely impact our precious daily
routines all that much.
I've started opening the window,
leaving the heat lamps off, reducing
the water temp, and singing fewer
songs. Baby steps…
Bob Krell
Founder & Publisher
Blow Out the Candles
