Energy Efficient Homes - The Future of Real Estate in the Philippines

Much of the world today is highly dependent onmarket renewable energy because, obviously,
fossil fuels to run their economies. Highlythey do not really care. These multi-billion dollar
industrialized nations have never put a cap on howcompanies are just so greedy that they do not
much they can really take before they suffer therealize the potential disaster they will face in the
consequences. The global community willnear future.
experience a head-on collision with mother natureReal estate developers should also look into
eventually if international leaders cannot come upenergy-efficient homes. These so-called
with a realistic solution to global warming. It is thiseco-friendly homes are the trend of the future.
threat that results from the burning of the highlySolar panel installed rooftops is feasible. We can
efficient and widely used cheap source of energysave more on electric bills by utilizing solar energy.
- the fossil fuels, that affects every facet ofWater recycling can also be doable as long as our
human life as we know it today.government and its citizenry are willing to set
We have already faced the effects of globaltheir minds on it. Extensive waste management
warming and yet we are still turning a blind eyeand recycling should also be our primary goals. At
on what is happening today. The devastatingthe forefront of our economy of the future are
results of 3 typhoons in the Philippines in 2009ideas like these.
alone brought billions of pesos in damages to publicIt has been four decades since we began to look
property as well as placing undue pressure on thefor renewable energy. The plan to find other
local economy. Now, power outages and rotatingsources of energy brought about by the energy
brownouts are threatening the entire Luzoncrises, inflation, and the rising price of oil in the
economic scene and the Metro Manila financial hub.early 70's has been going on for more than forty
There are, however, many ways to alternativeyears, but this project has not yet been fully
sources of energy it is just that we are unwillingrealized by the global industry. The potential
to develop it. The petroleum giants are not willinglarge-scale application of this plan might yet be
to put their resources to build, improve, andfeasible for years to come.