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Being "Green" is probably the most important thing you can do in this time of climate change. Plus, it's easy, loses you weight (in most cases), and saves you money!
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*Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact flourescents. CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb... which saves about 300 lbs of CO2 each year.
*Move your thermostat down at least 2 degrees in winter and up at least 2 degrees in summer. You could save about 2,000 lbs of CO2 a year!!! (and it'll lower heating costs).
*Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases (look for Energy Star labels)
*Turn off (and UNPLUG) electric devices you are not using. Even if something is turned off and it is still plugged in it uses energy.
*Use a clothesline instead of a dryer whenever possible. You can even do this in the winter by having clothes racks set up or even hanging as many clothes as possible on hangers somewhere to dry.
*Get a home energy audit. Your local company may offer these, but if they don't, try to get them to consider it.
*Switch to green power (in many areas you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar).
*Don't use your air conditioner whenever you can help it, whether in the car or at home.
*Turn off lights
*Shut your doors. (Even inside, the less space your heaters have to heat, the less they'll be on).
*Move your thermostat down at least 2 degrees in winter and up at least 2 degrees in summer. You could save about 2,000 lbs of CO2 a year!!! (and it'll lower heating costs).
*Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases (look for Energy Star labels)
*Turn off (and UNPLUG) electric devices you are not using. Even if something is turned off and it is still plugged in it uses energy.
*Use a clothesline instead of a dryer whenever possible. You can even do this in the winter by having clothes racks set up or even hanging as many clothes as possible on hangers somewhere to dry.
*Get a home energy audit. Your local company may offer these, but if they don't, try to get them to consider it.
*Switch to green power (in many areas you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar).
*Don't use your air conditioner whenever you can help it, whether in the car or at home.
*Turn off lights
*Shut your doors. (Even inside, the less space your heaters have to heat, the less they'll be on).
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Last weekend this human tried freegan living in the woods on the edge of suburbia. We ate out of supermarket bins and cooked round fires. Some report putting on weight living this way. Western society is wasteful. A carbon tax is just another tax, nothing really changes net consumption or bad habits.
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