Here is a challenge for you: Implementation 12 (more) of these energy saving products and strategies for the next year. A further step in the direction of energy independence.
Turn off the lights when you leave the room.
Install a motion / movement in a room that you come and go frequently during the night.
Switch to LED Night Lights, they only use a fraction of the energy, the standard Night Lights do.
Disconnect your alarm clockClock and hold your phone next to your bed at night.
Turn off that light and go bed early, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Turn off the TV and read a book instead. Save electricity, and your spirit.
Use a clothes dryer heat saver in winter. Do not transmit the heat from outside your dryer, use it to heat your home.
Dry your laundry on the line and avoid your dryer at all.
Put all your electronic devices: TV, VCR, DVD, stereo, computer, printer, cable router, networkRouter in a power strip and turn off the power strip at night.
Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
Turn your thermostat in the winter. 68 to66 degrees is recommended.
Turn your thermostat in the summer. 76-87 degrees is recommended.
Clean the cooling coils of your refrigerator.
Buy an Energy Star refrigerator. Your rerfigerator is usually the largest energy consumers in your house.
Use a laptop instead of a desktop computer.
Turn yourComputers when not in use.
Turn the printer unless you are.
Turn on the monitor as well.
The same applies to your speakers. You can save by turning off these electrical vampires.
Buy a new computer because they use much less electricity than older ones.
The same applies to LCD vs CRT monitors. CRT monitors are big energy guzzlers.
Upgrade to Windows Vista or 7, they have a "sleep" function. Oh, yeah – Use it.
Allow food to cool to room temperature before using thisin the fridge. Do not make all your refrigerator work harder than it needs.
Keep a pitcher of your favorite beverage in the refrigerator instead of ice. It takes more energy to freeze water to cool than just this.
Insulate your attic and walls to the proper level. Typically, R-60 in the attic and R-20 n Ithe walls.
Strip the extra refrigerator or freezer in your garage or basement.
Crank the thermostat another 4 degrees at night and turn on aElectric blanket. Turn it on just long enough to warm up your bed, or at least they keep on the low setting.
Move your kids in a bedroom in the winter and close the registers in the empty containers.
Let your furry friends on your bed to sleep in the winter. You can certainly help keep you nice and toasty warm.
Get rid of grandma's refrigerator or freezer that you have in the basement or garage.
Install a programmable thermostat: lower heating costs = lower electric bills.
Buy and use a spaceHeating or two and only heat rooms that you use while the rest of the house at a lower temperature.
Bundle and turn down the thermostat.
Snuggle under a blanket with a friend, while watching TV.
Use timers to turn signal on and off when you are not home.
Use the task lighting instead of light the whole room.
Watch your favorite programs on your laptop instead of TV.
Go to your solar water to heat.
Listen to your MP3 player instead of crankingthe stereo.
Use window fans to cool nights, instead of air conditioning.
If you renovate it, to avoid carpeting, you can vacuum less often with hard floors.
Replace your air conditioner is Energy Star with that assessment.
Moving to a smaller house or apartment.
Seal your windows with insulating glass window film.
Install a radiant barrier in your attic. It is to reflect heat.
Replace furnace filter if needed that will help your furnace run more efficiently.
Upgrade your furnaceone with a higher efficiency.
Eat it raw or cold vegetables, bread (instead of toast), sandwiches (grilled cheese vs cheese), and milk for example.
Cook with a solar oven. Use the sun to cook your dinner, instead of your electric or gas stove.
Dine by candlelight and tuurn the lights.
Get a poster and hang blankets over the top and side – then you can turn the thermostat down during the night.
Weatherize your home, seal all suchCracks, crevices and holes.
Adjust your refrigerator and wrap it with 1 ½ "rigid insulation and any number of finishes: painted or stained veneer, chalk board, galvanized steel, vinyl tiles, tiles or cork.
Teach your children are not open to the refrigerator door.
Practice what you preach.
Wash your hands in cold water and give your water heater a break.
Install energy-efficient heat reflective film on all your windows. This film RELECT heat out in summer and back toWinter.
Move your fridge on an unheated porch, garage or breezeway in the cooler months.
Use to enter an unheated warehouse, garage or enclosed porch and leave your house. This cold air blows from invading your house every time you in or out to prevent.
Add a dog door in the vestibule above, this will also reduce the cool explosions.
Install solar lights on your patio, deck and / or garden.
Open the curtains in the winter and on the north side of your houseto let the sun
Install a solar tube type skylights and turn off the lights in this room at night.
Set solar powered lanterns outside during the day and puts them in the night for a taste of life on the net.
Install LED bulbs in your recessed cans. They even use less energy than CFL's.
Leave the TV for your dog during the day. Let them read the newspaper if they have to on the news.
Install a whole house fan, and use instead of your airConditioner.
Use an antique sewing machine with a foot pedal.
Plug the strip into the timer so you do not need to remember to turn it off.
Can the jam, instead of freezing it. This applies to the additional production from your garden, too.
Generate your own electricity with a wind turbine.
Install a solar air heater or two.
Install Solar Choice Blinds: a passive solar heating in the form of vertical blinds.
Buy an Energy Star Front Load Washer.
Wear your clothes more than oncebetween washes.
Do only full loads of laundry.
Wash your clothes in cold water, or at least warm instead of hot.
Fill your dishwasher before running it.
Use the Save settings "energy" on your dishwasher.
Switch to Energy Star dishwasher.
Use a small plate instead of a large, whenever possible, to reduce the burden dishwasher.
Use a glass for your drinking water all day and it will take longer to fill your dishwasher.
Try to use only one plate or bowlper person for each meal, will this lead to fewer dishwasher loads.
Serve food in the pots that you cook the food in and it will take longer to fill the dishwasher.
Directly in the shower once in a while.
Install an instant hot water heater – hot water faster to the tap.
Insulate your hot water pipes.
Skip shaving once in a while.
Switch to low-flow shower heads.
Put the scraps from your plate in a worm bin, instead of down available.
Take shorter showers – holdfor five minutes or less.
Plant a tree or more shade your home.
If you take a shower Turn off the water while you wash and soap foam.
Two young children in the same tub = ten to twenty liters of stored water.
Get your children involved and teach them to turn off the lights when they leave the room, for example, (for).
Adjust your water softener so that it regenerates only when needed.
Easily steam your vegetables instead of boiling them to death.
Take showers tandem: when onePerson is the next hop done in.
Give your dog a bath bathed in the water only your children in.
Jump in the shower before the water is warm and enjoy a refreshing start to the day.
Trade in your oven for a little fire-breathing dragon. This can be difficult because they are extremely rare.
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