- Replace light bulbs that are on for more than one hour a day with compact fluorescent bulbs. Target had some on sale (GE brand) and I picked up a few to replace some of the lights in our house.
- Switched to the NSTAR Green Program. I learned about this program that our electric company offers. You can opt for 50% or 100% of your electric energy to come from a wind farm. We are switching to 100%. There is a premium price for this option (estimated $4-10 more per month) but we are challenging ourselves to cut back energy to make up for this increase. Plus, there's a rumor that the price of the wind farm energy will be less starting in January 2009 than the "regular" energy we're signing up now before the rush. Visit http://www.nstar.com/ for more information.
- There was a suggestion made to not dry your clothes at the meeting. I like this idea but the thought of hanging my family's clothes all over, especially with baby stuff (do you know how many clothes we go through?!?!) seemd daunting. Another mom suggested just hang drying one load per week. That sounds doable for me right now.
- I bought a compost bin. I haven't received it and I'm not sure what to do with it after it arrives. :0 A friend of mine has offered to show me hers and give me some pointer. And thank goodness for Google. Any tips from you folks out there would be greatly appreciated!
Okay that's it for now. Ciao.
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