It is the small things that can make a difference to helping our environment recover from the excessive damage we have caused to this beautiful planet of ours. If we can't change our behaviour in small ways how will we learn to adapt to the big changes that we have no control over (like running out of oil for example).
~ Lights ~ Everyone uses them nowadays but we need to learn to turn them off, this is a simple thing to do yet we fail to switch them off when we leave the room! Make sure every bulb in the house is an energy saving bulb, they are only about 11 watts which is better than a 60 watt bulb (over 500% better).
~ TV ~ We all know that we shouldn't leave the tv on stand by but we still persist to allow the tv to drain electricity (and we all that the price of electricity is only going up). For example the average 26 inch led tv uses 50 watts per hours when on and 0.3 watts an hour when off but plugged in, however it uses a massive 18 watts an hour. Using that stats if someone put their 26 inch tv on stand by for 20 hours a day then they are using up 360 watts (20 times 18) which is going to waste.
~ Heating ~ It can be a real pain in the butt waking up to a cold house so naturally you would be the heating on but does it need to stay on while your out of the house? If (like me) you don't want to come home to a cold house then set the heating to come on an hour before you arrive.
~ Trash ~ If an item can be recycled or even better if it can be reused then don't throw it out. Why not take it a step better, why not try to reduce the amount of rubbish your household makes. We used to empty our litter bin every night after supper but now we only need to empty every 3 days (if that).
I hope that you find this useful (or at the very least some sort of motivation to life out a greener and healthier lifestyle).
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