| Choose a Dryer with Moisture Sensors |
| When shopping for a new dryer, choose one that has a moisture-sensing feature. A moisture sensor allows the dryer to automatically turn itself off when the clothes reach a specified level of dryness. |
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| Replace five incandescent lightbulbs in your home with compact fluorescents: Swapping those 75-watt incandescents with 19-watt CFLs can cut 275 pounds of CO2. |
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| Instead of short haul flights of 500 miles or so, take the train and bypass 310 pounds of CO2. |
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| Sure it may be hot, but get a fan, set your thermostat to 75 degrees and blow away 363 pounds of CO2. |
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| Replace refrigerators more than 10 years old with today's more energy-efficient Energy Star models and save more than 500 pounds of CO2. |
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| Caulk, weatherstrip and insulate your home. If you rely on natural gas heating, you'll stop 639 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere (472 pounds for electric heating). And this summer, you'll save 226 pounds from AC use. |
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| Whenever possible, dry your clothes on a line outside or a rack indoors. If you air dry half your loads, you'll dispense with 723 pounds of CO2. |
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| Trim down on the red meat. Since it takes more fossil fuels to produce red meat than fish, eggs and poultry, switching to these foods will slim your CO2 emissions by 950 pounds. |
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| Leave the car at home and take public transportation to work. Taking the average U.S. commute of twelve miles by light rail will leave you 1,366 pounds of CO2 lighter than driving. The standard, diesel-powered city bus can save 804 pounds, while heavy rail subway users save 288. |
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| Finally, support the creation of wind, solar and other renewable energy facilities by choosing green power if offered by your utility. To find a green power program in your state, call your local utility or visit U.S. Department of Energy's Green Power Markets page. |
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| Save Water with Powder Detergents |
| With severe to extreme drought conditions affecting parts of the U.S. and Australia, as well as elsewhere, we've got to start thinking about our water footprint, not just our carbon footprint. There are numerous ways to save water, but here's one simple way that might not have occurred to you: Switch from liquid detergents to powders. Laundry liquids are mostly water (up to 80 percent), with upcoming double and triple compact concentrates at best cutting that amount in half. It costs energy and packaging to bring this water to the consumer. So save three ways by using powder detergents to wash clothes. The same holds for dishwashing detergents, when there's a choice, choose dry powders. |
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| Avoid rapid acceleration and heavy braking - accelerate smoothly, even in a traffic jam. Smoother driving can use 30% less fuel. Also, obey the speed limit. Doing 50mph can use 25% less fuel than 70mph. |
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| Nine litres of clean water are used every time we flush the toilet so either install a dual-flushing mechanism (two levels of flush) or put something in your cistern to displace water (e.g. bag of water) to reduce the amount of water used. |
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