What is your ecological footprint?
By Tina Furtado, Realtor Tucson, AZ
(Moving to Marana - Tierra Antigua Realty)
Take this quiz to see how your lifestyle is impacting upon our planet and its resources. Tucson, like much of the rest of the country, is offering numerous earth-friendly alternatives in home construction. In an effort to lessen the ecological footprint we all leave behind, there is a wide range of options available from simple solar energy conversion to rammed earth and straw bale construction. Rammed earth and adobe structured walls lessen the heat/cold transfer from the exterior to the interior of the home, thereby making internal temperatures more stable and less costly to maintain at comfort levels. Tucson, like most arid climates, experiences vast temperature variations between daytime and night temperatures for most of the year, excluding the Monsoon in summer late June-August. F...
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