Low-carbon lifestyle means paying attention to energy saving and consumption reduction, living with low energy consumption and controlling carbon dioxide emissions in the details of life. Lohas's principles are: love yourself, love your family, love the earth more, no plastic bags, no fur, waste recycling, slow life, advocating pure cotton products, enjoying exquisite life, not only protecting the environment, but also happy discovery of DIY.
I really didn't pay attention to environmental protection before. I'm not in the habit of turning off the appliances after I use them. Sometimes people don't know where it is, and the computer keeps playing music. As long as the mobile phone battery is plugged in, it seems to be attached to the 502. There is no battery. I don't remember the battery being plugged in. Not to mention the air conditioner, which keeps the temperature to a minimum all the time. I hate it when I get home without frost.
After reading the low-carbon life, I found that carelessness in these details not only brought hidden expenses to families, but also seriously emitted carbon dioxide. Although the trace is very small, the harm of gathering together should not be underestimated. It turns out that even a small cell phone battery will emit terrible carbon dioxide when it is plugged into the socket when the appliance is on. As long as you are charging, you should take out the battery immediately. Originally thought, carbon dioxide was only emitted by automobile exhaust and coal combustion. Unexpectedly, there are weak "carbon" everywhere in our lives to infringe on our lives and the earth.
Knowing this, I will start my own low-carbon Lohas life in the future! Develop the habit of turning off the power at will; Use air conditioning as little as possible; Use walking instead of transportation; Reduce some energy consumption in life to the lowest possible state, and minimize the carbon dioxide emissions of the culprit.
Women love beauty and have their own caution. Every day, the rice washing water will not be poured out. Wash your face or hands with it, it is definitely a natural whitening product. Grind your own soy milk every morning. Sometimes if you can't finish eating it, it will turn sour after a long time. It doesn't matter. If directly applied to the face or used as a conditioner, the beauty function is also quite powerful. Women's beauty should pay more attention to the maintenance of the soul, tolerance, understanding, kindness and helping others. These are all good ways to cultivate your self-cultivation, and you can also get unexpected happiness from them. Peace of mind and body is the magic weapon of beauty and vitality.
I am all thumbs, I can't do manual work or DIY, but I can DIY mentally, I can think and learn! There will be many DIY ideas to beautify the small family at home. Clean up the waste newspapers and put them at the bottom of the wardrobe. Newspapers can not only absorb moisture, but also absorb the peculiar smell in the wardrobe. There are many worn-out stockings and cotton socks at home, and I can't bear to throw them away. Clean them up, accumulate a certain amount, take them to the tailor's shop, and have them make me a sock mat or a mat with beautiful flowers. Abandoned socks are the best filler. Another advantage of silk stockings with holes is that they are used to hold soap heads and soap heads, so that small soap fragments will be completely used up.
Don't throw away the used mask paper. I use it to clean jewelry, furniture surfaces or belts, not only to make it clean, but also to leave the fragrance of mask paper. Dry tea residue can be dried and made into tea pillow, which is comfortable and helpful to improve sleep; Open all the used soap boxes, toilet water bottles, shampoo and shower gel bottles, and put them in the corner of the house at will or in the closet. Every time I go home or open the closet, there will be a natural fragrance. It is convenient and quick to use the ice cream box as an ashtray, and it is also a good way to use waste. Ordinary waste, through the spirit and creativity of manual DIY, will find that waste is also a kind of wealth, no wonder our mother has a treasure chest of waste items! This kind of home environment is healthy and full of creative little joy.
In life, every detail is exquisite and energy-saving, and with happy creativity, the life of housewives will be colorful. Some experts said: "Lohas is an environmental protection concept, a cultural connotation and a product of the times, while low-carbon life is a low-energy, low-cost and low-consumption lifestyle, both of which are close to the source of life, natural, healthy and exquisite attitude towards life."
In material life and enjoyment, we always want a lot. Actually, we don't need much. We need less indifferent desires, more green organic food, a healthy, happy and low-carbon lifestyle to reduce our stress, contribute a little environmental protection to the earth we live in, and discover the true exquisiteness and taste of life from the nuances. This is also a good positive attitude towards life.
Kochi Lao Sa's Low-carbon Life
Text/Jane
Lao Sa is a freak in our circle of friends. Because I like to ask questions when I get along with people, I must end up with a colorful "Sa" at the end of the sentence, hence the name.
It's too stingy for us to talk about the big-footed savage. Objectively speaking, people sometimes just don't play cards according to common sense. For example, Dr. Haigui, like him, is also the head of research and development of a large financial institution. "Having a car and a house" is very logical. However, instead of staying in Beijing for ten years and buying a house, he "shot a gun for a place" and idled as his "tenant family". Some people don't understand, break up with him and settle accounts, saying that the down payment for buying a suite is only two years' salary for him, and his rent for these years is no less than the monthly payment, not to mention that the return on real estate investment is so fast and impressive. He is a professional in investment and financial management. Has this account not been calculated? Maybe he is tired of such questions. He usually only perfunctory, "We have no money." When he met someone he was willing to accept, he said: "In recent years, the place where children go to school has not been fixed, so my family's place of residence has not been decided yet-kindergarten, primary school, junior high school next year. Buy a house wherever it is suitable. If she studies farther away, spending two or three hours on the road every day is not counted, and buying a car and driving is a waste of resources and trouble. Now it is better to rent a house nearby, so as to save the pommel horse fatigue all year round, let children and adults sleep late, benefit others, save energy and reduce emissions, which is very good! "
Speaking of this "energy saving and emission reduction", he has been very practical. Every time he was criticized as "rambling", he was very reluctant and well-intentioned. Most of them said, "Why don't you turn off the lights? What a waste? " "This hasn't been finalized yet. It's good to play White, isn't it? Unfortunately, the paper is so thick and white! " "Just a few steps, just walk past, what car are you driving? Doing exercise and basking in the sun is better than pedaling on the treadmill, right? "
Compared with his "living by school" in the city, the only immovable "mansion" is his private orchard. In the third year after returning to China, he packed several acres of orchards in Changping and built a simple farmhouse. The gatehouse built of logs is shaded by flowers and trees, and the trimmed waste branches are tied into a serrated fence, which is more casual and lovely. This spring, we were invited to his home for a holiday to enjoy flowers. Under the blue sky, the endless sea of flowers, the gouache of peach blossoms and the jade white of pear blossoms tremble slightly in the bright sunshine and breeze, and the world is full of refreshing fragrance ... The owner of linen shoes sets wine and fresh fruits and vegetables on the stone table in the yard, and the children are laughing and playing on the swing under the wisteria frame. Speaking of rising places, he advised us to "do some farm work", water, hoe the ground and plant seedlings ... Whether it is important or not, everyone must do at least one thing-"You guys always fly planes when you go out, and you are a big carbon emitter! Come on, come on, plant some trees! Carbon sink forest yes-you will make up for it! "
People who have stayed in the city for a long time are curious about digging and planting trees. Coupled with the pressure of old Sam's big hat, everyone obediently does their own work. Later, we found that this is really a good thing that has made great contributions to the contemporary era. In autumn, apples and pears fill the whole garden. Lao Sa ordered large cartons, carefully packed them one by one, rented a van to the city, and sent them to our friends and customers who do farm work in boxes. His pear, because there is no chemical fertilizer, is not big and its appearance is not bright, but it is crisp, juicy and sweet. There is a box of pears on the balcony, and several rooms are filled with the unique intoxicating smell of pears. The box of pears he sent to my house was sixty or seventy Jin, and we couldn't finish it ourselves. We give it to our neighbors, relatives and friends for them to taste in advance. People who have eaten it are full of praise and sigh: "Such a pure and delicious pear has not been eaten for many years."
What is the power grid? Power transmission network. This answer is acceptable now. If you still answer like this after 20 years, then you are OUT.
After 20 years, electricity and network will be two unified concepts. Power line is no longer a simple transmission of electric energy, but a collection of communication, broadband services and relay TV signals. Now there are wires everywhere in the house-cable TV lines and network cables are wrapped around the wall. But after 20 years, you can do it all with wires at home. Through the converter, you can see cable TV and connect to the network and telephone.
But this is just a simple scene. Because of the existence of smart grid, after 20 years, all of us will be employees of "Smart Grid Company", and our life will have a qualitative leap.
Live poetically
After 20 years, the electricity consumption has not changed for you, and it is still lighting or household appliances. But at this time, electricity has changed, and our electricity consumption has reduced the pressure on the earth's environment compared with the past.
It may have just passed 10 years. Because of carbon emissions and climate warming, we have seen more than half of the glaciers in the polar regions melt. Don't think that you have no job. No matter what occupation you are in, as long as you use electricity, it has something to do with it. Driving naturally has a greater impact. The calculation shows that white-collar workers in a city, even if they only have a living area of 40 square meters, drive 1.6L and fly after work 12 times a year, and their carbon emissions are 26 1 1 ton.
If you are an American, you should be ashamed-the research results of the US Department of Energy show that even in 2 1 century, the power loss caused by the inefficiency of the US power grid is still as high as 67% of the total power.
But maybe we don't have to worry in the future, because we are starting to live a green life. Smart grid solves a series of grid-connected problems, such as intermittent wind power. The energy we use comes from renewable energy such as solar energy or wind energy. Steven Chu, the current energy secretary of the United States, believes that with new technologies, renewable energy can account for 50%.
If you have enough "sites", the power problem can be solved by yourself. After 20 years, the technology of solar panel power generation will be stupid, just like today's stupid cameras, and you don't need to spend too much thought on maintenance. During the day, the sun is strong, the solar roof generates electricity, and the surplus electricity is sent to the power grid. At night, the solar roof does not generate electricity, and the grid electricity is normally used. If the continuous light is strong and your roof area is large enough, you may earn some electricity bills and become a business. I'm afraid what you are worried about is why my roof is so small.
But even if your roof is limited, it doesn't matter. China spans five time zones, and it's already evening in the east and noon in the west, which just complements each other, which is equivalent to installing solar panels in the west. Of course, this requires a powerful smart grid in a wider range, and a poetic life always needs some foundation.
Cars that emit "big cars" in life can also get rid of tail gas and start a new life. Because we will drive a pure electric car or at least a hybrid car. It doesn't matter if you forget to charge it or don't turn it on for a long time. Like the current mobile phone fast charging equipment, it can charge the battery in a short time. If you need to travel for a long time, you can go to the substation on the side of the road to charge directly with coins when you encounter power shortage; If you don't turn it on for a long time, don't worry, the car battery will become a profitable or at least cost-saving tool. In the middle of the night, after the peak electricity consumption, we can store electricity at a lower price, and then release it for personal use during the peak hours, or sell it back to the power grid. This also means that there is no need to build too many power plants to reduce emissions at the root.
Even if you are not a SOHO, you don't have to worry about workplace emissions, because the whole building will be intelligent with the smart grid. Independent and complex traditional systems of various devices (such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting) have been integrated into a common IT infrastructure, which enables these devices to "communicate" with each other to coordinate activities and reduce waste. At the end of the work, you can also send instructions to the smart meter at home through the terminal. At this time, some household appliances can be operated in advance to ensure that the meal is ready before you go home.
The only worry is, if you live poetically and stop working, will you get fat soon?
Live frugally
There is a slogan that seems to answer the life in the era of smart grid-simple is not simple.
In 20 years' time, there may be more appliances at home than today, but the cost of using electricity will be lower. Because smart meters are not only metering devices, but also Internet routers, smart meters can intelligently analyze the electricity consumption of household appliances and lighting equipment, and then transmit the results to our computers, so that users can see the composition of electricity consumption data at any time. In this way, we can understand the "eating habits" of home appliances as well as ourselves, and we can make home appliances "lose weight" more specifically.
Perhaps, you will worry, what if you know household appliances but can't command them? Don't worry, the smart meter is not only a simple "recorder", but also a "manager" who can process information. It can be operated automatically. For example, when we go out, we often don't unplug the socket, which actually wastes a lot of electricity. But when the smart meter detects this situation, it will inform us and then automatically dispose of it.
However, saving alone is not enough for us to really save money, electricity still needs to be consumed, and the real reduction of electricity charges should be "calculated" from electricity itself.
Due to the influence of supply and demand such as output, fuel price, climatic conditions and demand fluctuation, the cost and price of electricity are capricious. Generally speaking, the off-peak electricity price at night is 50% lower than during the day. But what we are seeing now is a stable price regardless of the time period. How to make good use of price leverage has become the key to "cost economy". Smart meters are fulcrums.
Smart meters can adjust electricity consumption according to different prices, turn off some unnecessary equipment in time, and switch energy consumption from high-priced period to low-priced period, such as electric cars at home, which can make full use of night charging. If your car battery capacity is large enough, you can "buy at a low price and sell at a high price" every day to achieve better economic benefits. Google's research shows that a smart power system will reduce the monthly electricity bill by 5% ~ 15%.
In addition to these "naked" economic costs can be reduced, energy costs can also be the biggest "savings". Now, we need to pay a series of fees such as electricity, cable TV, telephone and internet access in person at the bank, and it takes a lot of time to queue up every time. Twenty years later, telephone, TV and Internet are all "peers" in the power line, and the smart grid has realized an automatic data acquisition system, which can be docked with the bank's settlement system, and these expenses can be directly settled and transferred.
However, the realization of these scenarios is really not a simple matter. By 20 10, the average person in the world will have 654.38 billion transistors, and the economic benefits brought by smart grid are particularly impressive. Therefore, if you are engaged in IT, the development of smart grid will not only save you money, but also make you big money.