If you’re living in too large a house, you are contributing to a negative eco-impact. Most large homes create a larger footprint, use far more energy that they should, and waste resources. Not to mention, in my opinion, they create this whole more, more, more agenda. I.e. more furniture to buy, more decor, more junk. It’s a problem.
One major step in green living is to live within your needs, not live above them. Own as much house as you need, not more home then you need. That said, how can you tell if your home is too big?
You can use logic first of all. If you’ve got a family of four and a seven bed, four bath house, that’s living too large. If you’ve got a triple garage for those three cars, and you’re just two people, that’s living too large. If the only reason you have such a big space is to store your gear, your collections, your stuff, that’s living too large.
Take a quiz to find out if you’re living too large.
If you want to reduce your footprint and support a healthy environment, you need to learn to live smaller.
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that is just your opinion, and i think that you are a poor person that can’t afford something nice. in other words: you are jeolous of everybody that has more than you do. it is a sad sad world when people think that just because you live in a large house you can’t live green, it is very possible and people living in large houses are doing it all the time. grow up dumb ass
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