February 9, 2009 • 10:43 am 0
Filed under: Land
February 3, 2009 • 3:57 pm 0
Most of the energy your washing machine uses is taken up by heating water.
Most modern detergents work just as well in cooler water and some are even designed to work at a lower temperature. Why not try washing your clothes at 30°C to save energy and help to reduce CO2 emissions.
Alternatively, for an even greener clean, use laundry balls in your wash. Not only can these be used on a lower temperature, but they also negate the need for harmful detergents.
Filed under: Appliances, Water
February 2, 2009 • 8:39 am 0
8-10% of the total electricity used in your home is due to appliances left on standby.
Your standby button is an energy-eating monster; some appliances still use 25% of their normal power in standby mode.
Although your TV screen may look dormant, it’s actually using energy at an alarming rate behind that innocent-looking façade. Recent studies have shown that gadgets left on standby are responsible for 4m tonnes of excess carbon dioxide each year.
It’s also estimated that a typical household could save at least 555,000 IDR per year on electricity bills if they always fully switched home appliances off rather than leaving them on standby.
Why don’t start by switching off your appliances now? You’ll be saving energy, money and cutting your carbon emissions.
Filed under: Appliances, Electronics
February 1, 2009 • 10:29 am 0
Personal washing in the bath accounts for 21% of all the water we use in our homes.
Filling your bath uses an average of 80 litres of water. This is a huge amount to soak in for 10 minutes and then simply throw away.
And not only are you wasting water in your big bath, you’re also wasting all the energy to heat it up in the first place too!
Why not try cutting down on the amount of water in your bath? Using more than it takes to cover your body isn’t necessary and will simply create extra waste. Save your big bath-brimming soaks for rare and special treats!
As an alternative, you could consider cutting down on how often you have a bath. Maybe have one a week, rather than two or three, and try to take a shower instead of bathing whenever you can.
Filed under: Water
January 31, 2009 • 8:11 am 0
Bring tumbler to your favorite coffee or tea shop, if you want to have “take away drink”, because using tumbler reduces the amount of waste heading to landfills. It decreases the amount of pollutants that end up in water. The water that nourishes coffee or tea plants. That ends up as coffee or tea in your tumbler.
January 30, 2009 • 8:44 am 1
Start using Blackle as your default search engine.
Why?
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
Believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly, Seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
January 29, 2009 • 9:21 am 1
Trees are important tools in the fight to stave off global warming, because they absorb and store the key greenhouse gas emitted by our cars and power plants, carbon dioxide (CO2), before it has a chance to reach the upper atmosphere where it can help trap heat around the Earth’s surface.
One of many actions to reduce global warming is plant trees when you travel,
Filed under: Plant
January 28, 2009 • 10:02 am 2
Use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
It would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of more than 20,000 cars. If every home in the country did the same, it would be like ditching 800,000 cars and would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year.
So… change your light bulbs.
Filed under: Electronics
January 27, 2009 • 8:33 am 3
One person, making the choice to get involved.
One store, pitching in to help the neighborhood.
One company, staying true to its values.
One world that gets a little better for everyone.
Filed under: Uncategorized
