​Now that we know Climate Change, its causes and effects, what can we do now? I will explain to you, from the heart of BluHomes.
 

1. Open your windows and use natural ventilation to reduce your use of air conditioning, the biggest consumer of energy
2. Regularly clean your aircon filters to sustain its efficiency and no energy is wasted
3. Use energy-efficient appliances like inverter-type aircon and washing machine to reduce your energy consumption
4. Turn off your lights when going out of the room and remove sockets of your devices that are not being used
5. Install window covers to reduce the heat inside your home and reduce your use of air conditioning
6. Do not use water heater too much when showering
7. Use LED light bulbs because it is more energy-efficient and does not emit heat compared to ordinary incandescent light bulbs
8. Install solar panels on your home to reduce your energy coming from fossil fuels
9. Use natural daylight from your windows to reduce your use of artificial lights
10. Use clothesline instead of drying machines
11. Use automatic voltage regulators to reduce energy fluctuations and phantom loads
12. Do some of your activities outdoors like playing and jogging
13. Walk, bike, or use public transport in going places to reduce emissions coming from your vehicles
14. Regularly tune-up your car to maintain its efficiency and to make it not emit too much smoke
15. Choose to consume fruits and vegetable instead of meat because they have less carbon footprint and less processing is required

 
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1. Reduce, reuse, and recycle to reduce trash that ends up in our landfills that pollute our water
2. Resell or give away your unused and old items instead of throwing them to trash
3. Do composting to use your organic waste into fertilizer instead of throwing them to trash
4. Avoid single-use plastic. Instead, use reusable eco-bags, stainless staw, reusable meal containers and utensils
5. Use cotton rags instead of paper towels to reduce your waste
6. Use bamboo products because they are much more highly renewable compare to other types of wood
7. Print mindfully and reuse papers to reduce cutting of trees in making papers
8. Plant trees, grass, and plants in your backyard because they help in fighting climate change
9. Conserve water. Turn off your faucets when it is not being used
10. Use dual flush toilets, low-flow faucets, and low-flow shower heads to reduce water consumption
11. Fix your leaking faucets to reduce wasted water
12. Go out to nature to appreciate its beauty and be inspired to take care of it
13. Support green products like nature-friendly soap and shampoo, clothes made up of plastic trash, and shoes made from used rubber tires.
14. Because more than 40% of the energy consumption in the world comes from buildings and homes, it’s very important to support certified green developments like BluHomes.
15. Lastly, speak up and spread awareness. This is what we are doing in this video series. So please help me spread awareness by sharing this video to your friends and family.

 
Again, help me spread awareness by sharing this video to your friends and family. This knowledge that we are sharing is from the heart of BluHomes, brand of homes that are eco-friendly, certified as EDGE Advanced green buildings in the Philippines. Learn more at www.bluhomes.ph.

What are the negative effects of Climate Change? Why should I care? I’ll explain to you, from the heart of BluHomes.
 
Based on the report of Breakthrough National Center for Climate Restoration based in Melbourne, Australia, and is also reported by CNN Philippines, “climate change could pose existential threat by year 2050.” There is a threat to our lives and to the lives of our children and grandchildren because of climate change.
 
Because of global warming, our climate is getting warmer. According to the report, in the year 2050, in a span of only a year, we will experience 100 days of lethal heat that cannot be tolerated by our bodies.
 
Our polar ice caps at the north pole and south pole are melting, and our sea level is rising. Many places around the world will be submerged in water, and many places in the Philippines will be included. Billions of people will need to vacate their homes to seek for higher places, and we might be part of them.
 
Because the water that comes from melting of our polar ice caps are fresh water, the saltiness of our oceans gets diluted. In addition, the heat in our atmosphere are being absorbed by our oceans, that’s why our oceans are also getting warmer. Because of these, many species of fishes and corals will be harmed.
 
By the way, help me spread awareness by sharing this video to your friends and family. This knowledge that we are sharing is from the heart of BluHomes, brand of homes that are eco-friendly, certified as EDGE Advanced green buildings in the Philippines. Learn more at www.bluhomes.ph.
 
Because of the heating of our climate, our soils become dryer and their moisture is getting depleted that are needed by our crops for our fruits and vegetables. Our food production will have a problem and we will experience food shortage. Many people will starve.
 
Because of global warming, the waters in our oceans evaporate more quickly, and there is now more moisture content in our atmosphere. This will cause more sever and more frequent storms in the future.
 
Because of the warming, the moisture content of the plants and trees in our forests get depleted, and forest fires will be more rampant, that will destroy our forests. Habitats of many species of animals and insects will be at risk.
 
Why should your care? Your children, your grandchildren, and the future generation will face a huge problem in the future because of your actions and poor decisions today. You said you want your children and your grandchildren to inherit a better life, but you will inherit to them climate change and its problems. Will you allow this?
 
The good news is that we can do something about this, today. This will be discussed in part 3.


Again, help me spread awareness by sharing this video to your friends and family. This knowledge that we are sharing is from the heart of BluHomes, brand of homes that are eco-friendly, certified as EDGE Advanced green buildings in the Philippines. Learn more at www.bluhomes.ph.

We always hear the words Climate Change, but what is it really in simple terms? What are its causes? I’ll explain to you, from the heart of BluHomes.
 
Climate Change is not the typical changing of weather where it is rainy today, and tomorrow it is sunny. Or where it is cold today, and tomorrow it is hot. That is not Climate Change. Climate Change is the change of the average condition of the earth in the long term.
 
One example of this is Global Warming, the warming of the average temperature of the world these past 50, 100 years based on the studies of scientists.
 
This graph from NASA shows the fast increase of the average temperature of the Earth starting in the 1950s. What happened in the 1950s? Third Industrial Revolution, where the manufacturing industry and the automobile industry boomed all over the world. The burning of fossil fuels, emission of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and pollution have been rampant.
 
Shown in this graph also from NASA the line where the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere has never been passed in the history of the Earth. But in the 1950s, during the Third Industrial Revolution, the trend has spiked has passed this line. This is strong evidence that Global Warming is caused by human activities, not a natural cycle of the globe.
 
What is the cause of global warming?
 
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The main source of energy in our homes and buildings are mainly from coal-fired power plants, which burns fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Aside from this, our cars burn off gasoline and diesel that also releases these greenhouse gases. This means that carbon dioxide and all other greenhouse gases are increasing in our atmosphere. What will happen?
 
When solar energy from the sun hits the Earth, some of the energy gets reflected back to space, but some energy is trapped inside our atmosphere. Because of these greenhouse gases, more solar energy is being trapped inside our atmosphere. This is called Greenhouse Effect that causes global warming and climate change.
 
So what if the globe is warming? Why should I care? That is what I will share with you in part 2.
 
Again, help me spread awareness by sharing this video to your friends and family. This knowledge that we are sharing is from the heart of BluHomes, brand of homes that are eco-friendly, certified as EDGE Advanced green buildings in the Philippines. Learn more at www.bluhomes.ph.

BluHomes Katmon is an eco-friendly housing development in Rosanna Heights, Barangay San Manuel, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines. Designed with love for nature, each home in BluHomes Katmon is passively cooled, energy-efficient, and water-conserving, certified with an EDGE Advanced Green Building Certificate. Each home is estimated to save 74% in energy, reducing 1.10 tons of carbon dioxide emission per year per home. Each home is also projected to save 30% in water consumption, saving 205 cubic meters of clean water per year per home. This is like planting 18 tree seedlings per year per home.

BluHomes Katmon is located in Rosanna Heights, Barangay San Manuel, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. It is only walking distance away from the central business district of Ayala Altaraza and the upcoming SJDM Technopark. Each home in BluHomes Katmon is single attached and has 3 bedrooms, 2 toilet & bath, 1 car garage, 69-74 sqm floor area, and 70-108 sqm lot area.

Learn more about the eco-friendly homes of BluHomes Katmon at www.bluhomes.ph/katmon​

​The lighter the color of your roof, the more eco-friendly your home is. Why? I will explain to you, here in BluHomes.
 
Try to go out of your home at noon time wearing a black shirt. For sure, you will sweat right away. Now, try to go out wearing a white shirt, much cooler, right? This is the concept of Solar Reflectivity Index (SRI).
 
Solar Reflectivity Index is the measure on how much solar energy is reflected by the color of your roof from 0% to 100%. 0% SRI means that your roof does not reflect any solar energy, meaning it absorbs 100% of it. The lower the SRI, the hotter your home. On the other hand, 100% SRI means that your roof reflects 100% of solar energy and nothing is absorbed. The higher the SRI, the cooler your home.
 
If your roof is color brown, its SRI is 28%. This means that only 28% of solar energy is reflected and 72% is absorbed. That’s why it’s warmer! The SRI of a blue roof is 30% and of a gray roof is 37%.

​The color of the roof here in BluHomes is reflective white with an SRI of 67%. This means that 67% of solar energy is reflected back to the atmosphere and only 33% is absorbed. This is why it is much cooler here in BluHomes. This is one of the principles of passive cooling.
 
Because the roof of BluHomes makes the home naturally cooler, use of air conditioners is lessened. This will significantly reduce your consumption of energy since more than 45% of your electric consumption comes from your air conditioners. Where does your electricity come from?
 
Most likely, your electricity may come from a coal-fired power plant that burns fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. In this burning, it releases greenhouse gases to the atmosphere like carbon dioxide that is the main cause of global warming. In short, every time you use your air conditioner, you release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
 
Because the roof here in BluHomes is reflective white, your use of air conditioners is reduced, your electric consumption is reduced, and the greenhouse gases that you release to the atmosphere is lessened. That’s why it’s more eco-friendly!
 
I am Paolo Bellosillo of BluHomes, your home where nature smiles.

BluHomes Gakakan is an EDGE-Advanced Green Building Certified eco-friendly housing development in Amparo Village, North Caloocan City where homes are designed to be passively cooled, energy-efficient and water-efficient. Each home is equipped with 660-watt solar panels, wide roof overhang, reflective exterior paint, reflective white roofs with 2” thick glass wool insulation, fully-operable casement windows with insect screens, 2.5-meter high ceilings, attic ventilation, water-efficient toilets & faucets, and perforated pavers with grass at sidewalk. An endangered native and endemic tree called Gakakan is planted on each home to show our love for our native forests. Each home is also provided with green wall with real plants and semi-landscaped front yard.
 
Each home is estimated to have 44% savings in energy, with a reduction of 0.89 tons of carbon dioxide emission per year per home. Each home is also projected to save 38% of water consumption, saving 117 cubic meters of clean water per year per home. Each home in BluHomes Gakakan is as eco-friendly as planting 15 trees per year.
 
Homes at BluHomes Gakakan has 3 bedrooms, 2 toilets & baths, 1 car garage, 76-79 sqm floor area and 74.25 sqm lot area. Learn more about the eco-friendly homes of BluHomes Gakakan at www.bluhomes.ph/gakakan