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Pantagruel · 12-18-13, 05:30 PM

Do you remember the song ''Little things mean a lot'' ?
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In my attempts to leave as small a footprint as I can upon my passage on this Earth (about 10 years left, I figure), I try to keep in mind that correcting one little thing that one does daily is as effective as doing one large thing twice in one's life (i.e. replacing a furnace).

One of the things that I do twice daily is to wash in the bathroom upstairs, using heated water of course. As I was sitting there thinking, it dawned on me that that the heated water upstairs comes from the basement, two storeys down.

To get that litre of heated water in my sink, I had of course evacuate and to waste 2 litres of cold water. And, the heated water in the sink is just the tip of the iceberg. For it to be there, there needs to be about three times that amount left to cool in the pipe between floors.

So I bought an electric kettle and use it to heat one to two litres of water ''in situ'' as they say.

My question: am I doing the smart thing ecologically ?

12-18-13, 05:30 PM	#1
Pantagruel Lurking Renovator Join Date: May 2012 Location: Ontario Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Little things... Do you remember the song ''Little things mean a lot'' ? . In my attempts to leave as small a footprint as I can upon my passage on this Earth (about 10 years left, I figure), I try to keep in mind that correcting one little thing that one does daily is as effective as doing one large thing twice in one's life (i.e. replacing a furnace). One of the things that I do twice daily is to wash in the bathroom upstairs, using heated water of course. As I was sitting there thinking, it dawned on me that that the heated water upstairs comes from the basement, two storeys down. To get that litre of heated water in my sink, I had of course evacuate and to waste 2 litres of cold water. And, the heated water in the sink is just the tip of the iceberg. For it to be there, there needs to be about three times that amount left to cool in the pipe between floors. So I bought an electric kettle and use it to heat one to two litres of water ''in situ'' as they say. My question: am I doing the smart thing ecologically ?