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This article was written by Mark Hannah with the Moffitt Corportation.

Moffitt Corporation is the Global Leader in Gravity Ventilation since 1961.  Gravity ventilation also known as natural ventilation is using physics to allow heat to rise and escape from the building, others also call this process a stack effect.  The problem with many facilities is that there is not an effective process of heat removal.  Moffitt provides several products that allows for ventilation naturally.

Other ventilation companies often use motor-powered fans to relieve the building of heat and smoke.  This is ineffective in more ways than one.  Fans are only able to pull air out that is within one fan diameter.  That means the heat or smoke won’t be moved until it utilizes gravity’s force to rise towards that fan.  Secondly, fan motors add costs and maintenance that natural ventilators do not.  An estimated $400 is spent per horsepower per year.  That means a single five horsepower motor will end up costing $2,000 in operation alone using electricity.  That is if the motor runs perfectly all year and no additional maintenance is required.

Natural Ventilators once installed require no maintenance.  No hazards of maintenance men climbing up to the roof for repair.  These ventilators keep buildings weather tight allowing no rain or snow in.  The ventilators effectively remove heat and smoke providing worker comfort and cleaner air while having a longer life than a fan.

Moffitt provides a whole line of natural ventilators including our continuous relief ventilator, the Labyrinth and the GreenRoo^®.  Moffitt also provides free ventilation design as well as full turn-key solutions from manufacturing of products to project installation.  The benefits as well as savings are endless:

• No energy consumed
• No maintenance
• No sound
• No operational cost
• Long life span

Reduce your carbon footprint by contacting Moffitt today to greatly reduce your ventilation costs.  Call 1-(800) 474-3267 or mhannah@moffitthvac.com.

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The article being reviewed was written by Joann Gonchar, AIA

If you have yet to hear about “cap and trade”, prepare yourself, as our Government has approved a bill known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES).  This bill will establish a type of “cap and trade” method which sets limits on greenhouse-gas emissions (carbon dioxide and 5 additional heat-trapping gases).  This bill was created for the purpose of reducing emissions 3% from 2005 levels by 2012.  ”The required reductions would surge up to 17 percent by 2020, and to 83 percent by mid-century.”

Refining sources, utilities, and other industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions is who the bill would apply to.  The bill would not be directed toward individual commercial buildings.

What does all this mean?  It means the government is trying to save the world by reducing the deadly affects carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cause.  To learn more about these deadly gases click here: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

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Why is Carbon Footprint so important?  Carbon Footprint, aka GHG (greenhouse gas), is directly related to Global Warming!  If actions are not taken right now to reduce our Carbon Footprint we are setting up future generations for potentially impossible tasks. Reduce your Carbon Footprint and you will reduce Global Warming.  It’s a fact!

Reduce your Carbon Footprint to help “Go Green”?

When asking yourself this question one must understand:

• What Carbon Footprint means/is;
• What your Carbon Footprint consist of; 
• Calculate your Carbon Footprint, then
• Work on reducing it.

Carbon Footprint is “the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product” (UK Carbon Trust 2008).  In Lehman’s Terms it is the amount of emissions you produce directly (gas (cars, planes), coal (tranes, houses) or nuclear energy (electricity), to name the most common) or indirectly (public and financial services, car manufacture and delivery, furnishings and recreation and leisure).  Wikipedia is a great resource to learn and understand most everything about Carbon Footprint.

There are many resources to calculate your Carbon Footprint.  Click any of the following sites to calculate your carbon footprint, it will take about 2-5 minutes.  Try to be as accurate as possible.

• www.b-e-f.org/offsets/?gclid=CL3VwfqQnZgCFQu-GgodGwZmoA
• www.carbonfootprint.com
• www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/

Once you know what your Carbon Footprint consist of, you can work on reducing it to help Go Green.  Strategies to reduce your Carbon Footprint include:  driving less, buying less, taking less plane trips/vacations, turn your A/C off (or lower) when you leave for work, carpool, utilize public transportation opposed to using your private vehicle, ride your bike, walk, purchase only essential items, purchase items that use recycled content, reuse items as much as sanitarily possible.

Overall Practice being Conservative.  This will help you reduce your Carbon Footprint and Go Green!

-Green Man