I started to learn about temperature-friendly homes while I was in our gap year, plus it’s why I went into the field of temp advocacy because I could do something after feeling helpless for so long. At first, I thought a more eco-conscious home was a single 1 with plants around it. Still, I got to experience how various fields, including the heating industry, have come together to generate new heating plus cooling possibilities that are not carbon-intensive. I found a task working alongside a building contractor where they had a heating contractor subcontract a Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C expert for each of their homes to ensure they were energy efficient, however when I worked with a heating service expert in a single of the homes, I learned that a new heat pump is more temperature-friendly because it uses electricity most of the time, reducing each house’s carbon footprint considerably, then for the home my friend and I were working on, for example, a heat pump upgrade could supply whole home heating plus heat their water, which was a major save for the homeowners plus the planet itself. They also installed smart temperature controls to maximize help with indoor comfort. It allowed the owners to regulate the temps while saving them the struggle of scheduling oil furnace maintenance because the temp control app would send alerts. By the end of our term with the building contractor, our interactions with the heating company team were enough to teach me more about heating than I would ever have had the chance to learn more. It did not make me want to be a heating company or serviceman. Still, it taught me enough about the newest technological advancements plus their part in solving the temp crisis, so I picked environmental engineering for our undergraduate.