Creative Solutions That Save Energy

Community Solar: One Block Off the Grid

1BOG (One Block Off the Grid) organizes big groups of people together who want to get solar energy, and gets them a discount.   Homeowners looking to buy solar panels face a few problems... read more
Submitted By: Wolf
yearly savings: $1,000
  • 12,000 kWh

How To Reduce Your Home Heating Costs

Saving the planet and saving money go hand-in-hand when you reduce your home heating bill.You Will Need    * A furnace tune-up    * A programmable thermostat ... read more
Submitted By: argam
yearly savings: $250
  • 11,250 kWh

Homemade Energy

Check out the video on how to make your own Solar Panels. Another method of energy making is via small, home-sized, wind turbines such as the Skystream 3.7 as seen in Time Magazine as one... read more
Submitted By: Missa
yearly savings: $774
  • 7,856 kWh

Be Temp-aware with your home heating ...

This is something that I do take for granted, however by paying attention and keeping the thermostat low really saves, for every degree you lower the thermostat, you'll save about 5% on heatin... read more
Submitted By: Missa
yearly savings: $643
  • 6,526 kWh

Air Dry Your Clothes

Air drying your clothes saves 800lbs of coal from being burned to power your electric dryer -- that's 1400lbs of C02.  A dryer also uses 5750 watts per hour of electricity or on average 6... read more
Submitted By: Wolf
yearly savings: $591
  • 6,000 kWh
  • 1,400 lbs

Imagine your snack before you open th...

Everytime you open the fridge, you let out 30% of the cold air.  If you keep it open browsing, you let out even more air that the fridge must then use energy to re-cool.  (... read more
Submitted By: Creative Citizen
yearly savings: $583
  • 5,913 kWh

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