Thursday, May 20, 2010
"Going Green" Tips a la TLH & Cody:)
According to www.DoSomething.org, "if you replace 25% of your light bulbs with flourescents, you can save about 20% on your lighting bill?" Ok. That was kinda lame...not the kinda facts i'm hoping to share, BUT it's kind of an example of things I will probably be blogging about. I hope you will enjoy and interact! I'd love to hear your ideas, too.
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I guess you could say some friends and I have been doing the ''green thing'' since before it
ReplyDeletegot cool. We did it to not pay ''the man''. We wanted to keep our energy costs to the bare minimum. We started it out as a friendly contest, which got heated. Then it got somewhat of an obsession. Not to say that I'm neurotic about it, because I could be doing waay more. But if every person does just a little, a big collective difference can be made.
Here is some things we've done...and it work.
Compact Flourescents in every fixture 20/100 [20 watt consumption 100 watt lumen] and have only burnt out 3 in 15 years, compared to about 2 or 3 incandescent per month
If your hot water heater is electric...put a timer on it. Only make it heat an hour in the morning, and hour at night. Set a schedule for clothes washing, showers ect. Sves a ton.
Paint your roof WHITE...Yes I said it. White. A white roof will reflect 45 to 60 percent of radiated heat, keeping it from entering your attic. Which travels through walls ect. Or when replacing rooves, go with white metal.
Even tho I don't have an attic, my friend does. Ant this helped a ton.....Google ''Solar attic gable fan''. A small fan mounted in the attic gable vent removes heat build up. Moving air has insulating properties. You can find them less than 200 bucks. And even get them with thermostat for keeping warmth in winter.
Use dual layer curtians. When plentiful light hits, open to let more natural light in. Burn less lighting inside. When cold out, keep both closed with dark colors. This will draw heat and emit to room.
Run a small de-humidifier for a short time daily during the winter. Drier air makes you feel warmer at lower temps
Use and reverse celing fans during opposing seasons, but a floor fan is a must also for a direct wind chill affect. Thus raising AC temp setting.
Recycle Aluminum cans and foil, along with soup, canned vegetables, juice cans which are metal and bring good change.
Wrap 2 or 3 ''House Bricks'' in tin foil...place in the tank of each toilet in the house. This takes up water fill space and makes the toilet use less water per flush...doing the same job.
Make sure seal at bottom of doors are snug in winter. If they are not, use a towel to keep cold air seeping under.
Easy things like turn off lights, turn off tv's, sleep laptops ect when you leave the room.
There are many more that we haven't tried or thought of. It only takes a few to make the change....make it a contest for life.
WOW, CODY!! that's quote a strand you might have started. If i had followers, there's enuff info in that post to comment on forEVER!:) Thanks for the support, and i'll try using some of those points for ONE post at a time and see what kinda response we get:) you ROCK!! mmmmwah!
ReplyDeleteBTW, my husband will LOVE all your tips...just because it'll save money!! haha (Sorry, I'm not rich enough to save on the roof yet, 'cause I am NOT having a white roof, and I can't afford solar panels yet! :)
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