Climate Action Now » solar electric http://climateactionnow.org/blog Practical Action For Everyone Mon, 23 May 2011 16:57:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Painless ways to reduce your CO2 http://climateactionnow.org/blog/reduce-your-co2/ http://climateactionnow.org/blog/reduce-your-co2/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:23:28 +0000 Sue C http://climateactionnow.org/blog/?p=6 On this blog, we’re going to start posting weekly ideas for simple ways to reduce your CO2 output – easy to do for just about anyone, and if you subscribe, you’ll get them sent right to your inbox. The idea is that if you add one new habit every week or even just once a month, by the end of the year you’ll have made painless changes to your lifestyle that have a big impact on reducing your impact on global warming and your CO2 emissions footprint.  Some are familiar, but some are new, I’ll have some really creative ideas on this list in the coming weeks.

Just to get you started, here’s an easy way to save electricity:  Turn off your lights when you leave the house, go to bed, leave a room, leave your office at work for more than a half hour.  Turn off your ocmputer monitor, plasma TV, excess electronics, phone charger – just go around and take a look at everything that’s plugged in, and unplug it, or shut it off.  Do that every day for a week and see if you don’t lower your power use.

There are plenty of simple ways to incorporate alternative energy into your lifestyle.  Some small examples are solar deck rail lights, solar powered attic fans, and other similar products now available on the market. You can find many, many other options to start to reduce your use of fossil-fuel generated electricity.

Post you best idea here too – combining our efforts is the key to making small changes into big ones!

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