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27 Being Eco-Friendly

Renewable resources can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally. This

type of energy theoretically never runs out.

Sustainable Tent
This is the invention of Jordanian-Canadian architect, designer and artist
Abeer Seikaly. These amazing multipurpose tents were designed with
refugees in mind, people who have been displaced by global and civil war,
climate change and more.

Cooling Your Home

The windows that allow the sunshine to heat your home in the winter, need
to be shaded in the summer to keep the heat out. A longer roof over these
windows, called an overhang, can keep out the hot sun in the summer
when it is high in the sky.

Burning Wood
Burning wood can be an earth-friendly, renewable source of heat. But, the
wood should come from dying or diseased trees, or trees that had to be cut
down for other reasons. If wood is burned in the right type of stove or fireplace,
it will not make much smoke. This means it will make less air pollution.

Cooking with Renewable Energy
A solar cooker works by focusing the sun’s rays through one or two layers
of glass and onto food that is placed in a box. You can make your own solar
cooker that can heat simple food, like hot dogs or nachos. You can also buy
a solar cooker that can get as hot as the oven in your kitchen.

Heating Your Home
The inside atmosphere of a car gets hot on a sunny, winter day. The car gets
hot because the rays of the sun heat it up. The sun’s rays can also heat your
home. Passive solar energy does not use equipment to heat your home.
Sunshine comes through your windows and heats the walls and floors inside
your house. Windows in your home that face south allow sunshine in when the
sun is low in the sky during the winter.
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For every 2000 pounds of paper recycled, we save
7000 gallons of water free from chemicals and 17 trees.

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