I Care About the Environment, So I Became a Certified Electric Coach

Our homes are a significant source of carbon emissions that are warming the planet, and sometimes it feels like we don't know how to fix it. Residential and commercial buildings account for 13% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Some of that is a result of burning fossil fuels directly for heating and cooking, but a little more than half comes from indirect emissions of home electricity use, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To reduce those emissions, Americans will need to electrify our home systems that burn fossil fuels, while (just as crucially) increasing efficiency to use less electricity overall, especially until the grid decarbonizes. But that's much easier said than done: The US has some 147 million housing units, each of which will have a unique path to electrification and energy efficiency. Sounds like a lot of work, right? It is. Even our CNET survey revealed that more than half of Americans view energy efficiency upgrades as unattainable or not ... Read full article.