Our biggest impacts on our environment come from how we live and how we travel.

There are lots of steps we can take at home to save energy, reduce costs, improve our own comfort and most importantly, lessen our environmental footprint.

Take a look through a typical house: where and how are energy and water consumed and how can you reduce that? Travel Towards Net Zero.

Real data from Ontario, Canada and examples are included.

But what is energy and how can we grasp its size? What does it take to get your car to the top of a hill? Or to lift an elephant above your head?

Click to find out

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Your Home

How does it actually work, and how can you reduce its energy & water use and improve comfort?

About us

This web site has been created to share hard-won information about how energy & water are consumed within a building (in this case it happens to be a house), what the detail behind that is, and how you can generate savings while improving your life. How do you move Towards Net Zero? Energy management and water conservation are key activities to learn about and pursue.

The author Ian Sinclair, P.Eng., CEng, MEng&Man is an engineer who teaches at University part time and also consults on building and energy/water issues, sustainability and policy. Click on Contact in the main menu if you have further questions or would like to know more.

Sharing knowledge makes the world go round.