It’s good to occasionally check the temperature of your refrigerator and freezer. You want to make sure it’s set according to the manufacturer’s manual, so you don’t waste extra energy.
In general the EPA recommends keeping refrigerators at 37 degrees Fahrenheit and freezers at 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything colder is probably overkill, and just a big waste of energy.
Looking to shrink your energy footprint?
Yeah, who isn’t!
Well, Sue Reed helps you do just that with her book ‘Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for Your Home and Garden’.
In her book, she presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save time, money and energy by designing their landscapes and gardens to be more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
You’ll learn how to reduce your home’s heating & cooling costs, minimize fuel used in landscape construction, maintenance and everyday use, plus learn how to choose products and materials with lower embedded energy costs.
Sue combines general guidelines with tips, techniques and actions to help anyone make a positive difference without a major investment or change in lifestyle.
If you have the option, use a toaster oven instead of a conventional oven. Why? Because you’ll save on time and use far less energy.
Tests have shown that a well-insulated toaster oven, with plenty of room for air to circulate around it, consumes half the energy than a conventional oven does. Plus, using a toaster oven will keep your kitchen cooler, meaning less work for your AC and even more energy savings.
But what can one cook in a toaster oven besides toast & bagels?
Toaster ovens are great for casseroles, cheesy nachos, small pizzas and my all-time fave the grilled cheese sandwich.
So get creative & be eco-friendly in your kitchen this summer with the toaster oven.
Shopping online is full of conveniences, but did you realize that it is eco-friendly too. That’s right, internet shopping saves energy, resulting in enormous environmental benefits.
On average, an e-commerce warehouse use 1/16th of the energy that is used to operate a traditional retail store. It also saves transportation energy. Even overnight air shipping uses 40% less fuel than the average car trip to the mall. In fact, each minute spent driving to the mall uses twenty times more energy than a minute spent shopping online.
So go nuts…and start shopping now!
Celebrate Earth Day’s 40th anniversary on Thursday, April 22 by conserving. Use less energy, less water, and create less waste.
Here are the top 5 ways to conserve this Earth Day:
1- Change lights to CFL bulbs
2- Install a low-flow showerhead
3- Use reusable shopping bags
4- Fix all leaky water fixtures
5- Stop using disposable items
On Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. local time, Earth Hour will once again cascade around the globe, from New Zealand to Hawaii.
During Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple – turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S., Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about our country, our planet and our future, turning the lights off on pollution and climate change, making the switch to a cleaner, safer and more secure world.
Turn Out Take Action!
For more information check out the Official US Site for Earth Hour.
Nowadays everyone has a mobile phone & most people are plugging them into grid to charge them up. But we don’t have to, we can use the more eco-friendly solution of the sun.
The Solar Power Sleeve allows you to charge your iPhone while you are out and about using solar power to keep your battery topped up. Simply slide your iPhone into the case and it’ll start charging your iPhone.
The Solar Power Sleeve also features an emergency charging slot so you can charge your other devices using the Solar Power Sleeve. Simply plug your device into the Solar Sleeve using a USB cable and the Solar Sleeve with automatically begin to charge up your device.
So stop sucking electricity from nasty power plants & start using the clean power of the sun.
This is another easy tip to save on energy….Just turn down the brightness of your computer monitor.
By kicking down the brightness a few notches, will still allow for you to read the screen perfectly but will save on electricity. Plus, if you are prone to headaches reducing the brightness of anything can really help.
It’s the small things that count & will add up over time. Just watch that electricity bill drop!
Here’s an easy tip to save big on electricity…Switch that cordless phone to an old-fashioned corded version.
How is this eco you ask?
Well, cordless phones are energy vampires, just sitting in a recharging cradle they suck up power. Cordless phones use between 2 and 3 watts in both active & standby modes, according to tests by Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and about 60% of cordless phone energy use occurs during standby time.
Conventional corded phones use only a trickle of electricity, and that comes through the phone line. Plus, such phones will work even if the power supply to your home is cut off in a storm or another emergency.
So stop wasting electricity today & switch out those cordless phones.
This may seam super obvious to some, but the best way to save money on laundry is by only washing full loads. This will maximize energy efficiency and conserve water. By only washing full loads you’ll be using less water per item.
It’s really easy! Just put off doing laundry as long as possible.
