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Becca Cullum-Green

Can Plants Really Help Control My Home's Temperature? It's Complicated, but These Tricks Will Actually Work

Large plants in a modern dining space.

Instead of turning on the AC in summer, or cranking up the thermostat in the winter, just fill your house with plants. Sound too good to be true? Well, it might just be.

Plants have a reputation for helping cool our homes through transpiration — by releasing moisture into the air, however, in our investigation into so-called 'cooling plants', we already found out that while trees and plants help reduce the earth's temperature on a global scale, on a personal level, their effect is pretty negligible. Basically don't expect to fill your living room with plants and have them act as a natural air conditioner.

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