Notices by Adirondack :toad: (adirondack@toad.social)

@kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber

Also: wash your clothes about a quarter as much as you do now, and hang them to dry; don't use the dryer.

Work from home if possible.

Install a heat pump or a swamp cooler instead of an air conditioner.

Put in rooftop solar if you can.

Grow your own vegetables and raise a few backyard chickens if you have the space.

Ride your bicycle where safe.

Take public transportation where available.

These are not huge sacrifices, and can even be lots of fun.

@panduck @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber

A heat pump transfers heat into or out of your home from the outdoor compressor via a refrigerant, where an indoor fan unit either cools or heats the air by blowing it over a coil of the refrigerant. It can either heat or cool your home.

An air conditioner cools hot outside air then blows it into your house. So, rather than continually cooling the increasingly cool inside air, it always has to cool the hot outside air. Less efficient than a heat pump.

@mastodonmigration @stux @MagicLike

Or, only sign NDAs that you can see are unenforceable, which most of them are.