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Recommended: Impact of fossil fuels on the environment

Who doesn’t want a 100% green and cost effective school? You would be surprised how a few unpretentious changes can make our school such a superior place. Our walls and ceilings tragically lack cellulose insulation, permitting the cool air that the A/C worked so hard to produce seep out. The existing windows grant the heat from outside to attack our classroom’s temperature. To top it all off, the entire school sucks energy from the power grid like a plant sucks up water. Eco-friendly changes are not only simple, but just might break the grip of fossil fuels on our schools.

Enhancing our walls with cellulose insulation offers us an easy way to not only make our school more energy efficient, but more focused, too. Currently, the walls and ceilings license the cool air that our A/C worked so hard to produce ooze out without any opposition. With the manageable installation of cellulose insulation, the air does not escape effortlessly. Heating or cooling would not be required as much and would, therefore augment the school’s budget. An additional benefit of cellulose insulation is that it absorbs noise. Noise passes through the walls of a classroom fairly easily, meaning that one rowdy classroom or one boisterous student in a hallway will interrupt a class. Insulation either significantly muffles or even completely eradicates senseless noise produced by any source. For instance, I was once sitting in my history class, taking a very crucial test, when all of a sudden I hear the deafening scrape of rubber on tile. A child out in the hall was dragging his shoe on the ground, making a terrifying noise. My mind struggled to focus on the test, and rather than paying attention to the test, I paid attention to the raucous coming from the hal...

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... advantage is that if the solar panels provide more energy than we need, and the battery is full, we can automatically sell our surplus electricity back to FPL. We can receive money off of solar panels if they are producing more electricity than needed. We would also be reassured that they would last for a very long time. Most have a 25 year warranty, and some function up to 40 years after they are purchased. On the whole, solar panels are not only a way to fabricate electricity and be “green”, but an opportunity to make money to fund the school, too.

The advantages of making our school 100% environmentally friendly are now as clear as day. All in all, having our school be friendlier to the planet by installing cellulose insulation, high efficiency windows, and solar panels is an effective way to expand our budget and increase student happiness and productivity.

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