Scientists are striving for ways on how common people can help out in cleaning up some of the environmental clutter and they found it by changing a house's roof paint. Our current generation seems to be the one catching all the consequences of past. Today, the world is ushering to a newer, deeper environmental awareness and the great are taking appropriate steps to cut back h2o and impact.

Obama's main man when it comes to handling the global increased temperatures problem came out with a rather surprising but amazing way to help slow down the environmental phenomenon. Professor Steven Chu, who is the current US Energy Assistant, has declared that changing the roof paint of a house from the traditional dark colored ones to white will be equivalent to reducing the h2o and emission of cars in eleven years.

The energy assistant said that a good way of fighting off global warming's ill effects is making roofs white and constructing pavements to achieve a more concrete kind of color than having it black, which is the normal colour of pavements and roads.

The reason for advocating white roof paint is that light colors reflect heat back to the atmosphere than simply absorbing it -- which is what dark colours do roof repairs. If you paint your roof white, it will deflect the sun's hot radiation more extensively than any other colour. It could mean saving a lot from your cooling costs every summer. Imagine saving all that money while helping out in lessening energy as well.

You might be singles as roof material, you can still help in this environment -- friendly endeavour. Replacing those dark-coloured shingles with terra-cotta red or white ones, will help you economize to forty percent of cooling expense. Remember, a house must be re-roofed after two decades or re-coated with paint every two years to maintain it.

This leaves us wondering how this idea could be put to action. The us is now currently implementing moves on how to get this project pushing. Some of the states even contribute towards benefits for families that can make their homes more environment friendly. Whether other states in the us or other countries will make the move using the white revolution to a greener world is still left to be seen.

Seeing a house with white roof paint may be a unique perception to some. How much more seeing a street full of white-roofed houses? Or a city? Or a region? Or a country? The scientists have talked. Now it is your chance to manufacture a difference. All of us can indeed change the world by choosing white paint and applying it one roof at a time.