Few tips to cut your energy bill.
- Lower the temperature in your hot-water heater
- Have one person in your office turn off and unplug appliances at the end of the day
- Unplug unused appliances at home; boom boxes and cable boxes are particularly bad energy hogs
- Turn off your PC if you’re not using it for a couple of hours or more
- Turn thermostats down when it’s cold out, up when it’s warm out
- Rearrange furniture in your home to take advantage of natural lighting
- Replace incandescent lightbulbs with CFLs
- Use power strips that let you turn off multiple appliances at once
- Unplug your clothes dryer and use a clothesline instead
- Replace your showerhead with a more efficient model
- Take shorter showers
- Turn off the TV
- Use space heaters or air conditioners to heat or cool only the rooms you need to use
- Check seals on windows, doors and refrigerators
- Keep a flashlight handy for late-night bathroom trips instead of turning on lights
- Have camp lanterns and hand-cranked lighting handy
- Cook quick meals in the microwave instead of using the oven or a slow-cooker
- Don’t wash clothes unless they really need it; wear items two or more times if not offensive to yourself or others
- Wash dishes by hand in a single sinkful of water instead of using the dishwasher
- Switch to a wind-up alarm clock
- Grill outdoors instead of cooking inside
- Remove lightbulbs in multi-bulb fixtures where one or two bulbs will do
- Turn off heat or air conditioning when not at home (or leave on just enough to keep pipes from freezing, or to keep plants and animals comfortable)
- Turn off unnecessary store and electronics displays
- Vacuum refrigerator coils to ensure top efficiency
- Empty and unplug duplicate fridges, freezers, TVs and clocks
- Start car-pooling, walking or cycling
- Turn off plant and fishtank lights, and relocate plants and fish to sunnier parts of the house
- Cancel your cable/satellite TV service
- Run your shower just long enough to get wet, then turn off, soap up and turn water on again just long enough to rinse
- Cut down on Internet surfing, computer gaming, etc.
- Take “sink” baths instead of showers