This week is Energy Saving Week for the UK’s Energy Saving Trust. By the name of the event, you’d think that the organization was encouraging you to burn fuel like there is no tomorrow for the rest of the year, but not a bit of it. Energy Saving Week is a regular educational drive and [...]
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Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the little changes that add to big differences in your monthly outlay. I’d like to just take a moment to go over them again.
Don’t waste your energy: turn off unused lights and appliances
While that statement seems so obvious unless you have made it a dyed in the [...]
However much you might be committed to cutting down on your electricity bill and however often you sit down with the kids to drum the concept into them, it is so very easy to walk out of a room without switching off the light or turning off the heater.
You can’t be everywhere at once [...]
Compact Fluorescent (CFL) Bulbs use 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. The U.S. Department of Energy stated that if every American household replaced just one normal bulb with one CFL bulb the energy saved would be enough:
to light more than 3 million homes for a year,
save $600 [...]
As the Weatherization Assistance Program has been active for the past 30 years, you could not really call it news. Unless of course, you’ve never heard of it and you are liable to benefit from it.
Over the last 3 decades, the Weatherization Assistance Program run by the U.S. Department of Energy has helped over 5.6 [...]
