Energy Conservation

25 Everyday Techniques to Save Environment

January 11, 2012
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25 Everyday Techniques to Save Environment

No, I’ll not be asking you to plant trees around your town. And I will not ask you to go back to the stone-age when there was no pollution. I am going to talk about 25 pretty easy-to-follow ways to help mother earth by saving the environment around you. Charity begins at home, you start today, your neighbor starts tomorrow and the whole city starts doing this by year-end, how about that? No, I can’t be that optimistic; but what’s the harm in throwing the idea around? Are you with me?   Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time   Steps to reduce pollution We all pollute the environment we live in, I do, and your dog does too. It’s very much in our control to reduce this pollution. 1. Go paperless, save environment. Sure you can’t stop advertisement leaflets coming in to your mail box (shouldn’t there be an environmental law to ban this practice, or at least, be made it mandatory to use recycled paper?) but, you can control the statements, updates and notices which you get from your financial institutions. Select paperless as the mode of communication. Mostly all of them support this.

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How to Keep Heating Bills Low This Winter

January 6, 2012
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How to Keep Heating Bills Low This Winter

This holiday we had a visitor, an old friend from my childhood.  He and his family currently live in Michigan. While Florida presented them a welcome change of weather, they in turn gave me this frugal story of theirs to keep home heating bills under control.  I was pondering this idea for last few days and ultimately asked for his suggestion. Having a reputation in our dorm for his legendary frugality, this friend of mine is the ultimate authority in cost cutting. Here are some of the techniques he suggests employing at your residence. When using electricity When your thermostat is the one and only option to warm your home. Controlling the thermostat Set it a few degrees lower than you normally do in winter. This will require less energy consumption to heat your home.  If you cannot turn off the heat while you are away, consider setting the thermostat even lower. This will help in lowering the heating bills as well as maintaining a suitable temperature in the house. Ensure proper room insulation Ensure energy is not leaking through the windows. Check and make sure the windows and doors are completely sealed and there’s no space under the doors. The windows should

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How Use of Alternate Energy Can Save Money

December 16, 2011
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How Use of Alternate Energy Can Save Money

Once in a while, I think about adopting the different forms of alternative energy right here in our home. Though I understand that the cost is quite expensive; solar panels are not cheap at all but, the long-term benefits are far greater. So far, I have only ensured home insulation and bought a few energy star appliances towards my contribution to the green cause. This saga of going green is of one of my colleagues, Cindy, who lives in a single family home. They are slowly transforming their suburban home into a sustainable one: Cindy’s husband is a businessman and owner of a couple of restaurants. They have money to live life they wish for. One of her wishes was to help the environment. They studied, researched and installed solar power modules at their home. Now they are planning even planning for mini wind mill installation. They did study different forms of renewable energy before adopting Solar energy first. As it turns out, they could actually fit a few solar panels in the backyard to power some of the appliances and several solar panels on the roof to sustain for at least 2/3 of the day. She has been using

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Three Largest Energy Guzzling Appliances And How to Cut Cost On Them

July 4, 2011
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My Mrs. is a Masters in ecology, she has many subscription to green energy, clean energy magazines. She always reminds me to innovate ways to cut costs on our daily energy usage. Recently I came across a few tips on saving energy on household appliances supplied in mailer from our utility company FPL. I had already written three articles related to energy usage How To Save Money by saving water, How I save some money on Earth day and How to save on Gas prices. This is my another green attempt to remind all our readers on the relative ease with which you can control energy usage to generate maximum save. I will only talk about 3 most energy-consuming appliances in your home if you concentrate on controlling energy usage on these three things, you can save up to 40% of your energy bill. This is what I called efficient and most productive way to derive maximum result. Oh, certainly you use energy-efficient bulb, but, did you ever calculate how much you could save by using an energy-efficient bulb in one year? Let me tell you it’s minuscule, rather, I will encourage you to do whatever you can to save the planet and

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