Take on climate change at home

Life Kit

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Much of the energy used in buildings comes from burning fossil fuels — so if you want to slow down climate change, your home is one of the first places to look. Here's how to use less energy and even transition to renewable energy sources at home.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:02.0	I'm Dan Charles.
0:03.7	Here at NPR, I write about climate change,
0:06.8	which is so huge.
0:08.0	It gets a little abstract sometimes,
0:09.9	talking about greenhouse emissions,
0:11.7	carbon dioxide levels.
0:13.8	Like, what does this have to do with little old me?
0:17.4	One day last summer though, I got very specific and real.
0:20.2	And I realized there are some things I can do
0:22.3	about greenhouse emissions where I can even measure the results.
0:25.8	It happened on a trip to New York.
0:27.9	I was standing on a street in Brooklyn with Denel Beard,
0:31.2	who runs a company called Block Power.
0:33.8	We were looking at a row of brown stones,
0:35.8	and Denel was explaining that buildings have a carbon footprint.
0:39.7	Most of them here and everywhere run on fossil fuels of some kind.
0:43.5	The trick is how do you move these buildings off of fossil fuels?
0:46.3	How do you move them to clean energy?
0:47.8	And he pointed toward one building where they'd done it.
0:50.5	They had new electric heating and cooling systems,
0:53.0	or solar panels on the roof.
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