How to Save Energy and Go Green
- Avoid the car: When taking a short trip, choose to walk, cycle or use public transport. This reduces your carbon footprints and is also good for your health
- Check your tyres: Fully inflated tyres can reduce a car's fuel emissions by up to 5%. Maths is the answer
- Drive slower - and smoother: Staying within the speed limit and smoothly accelerating can save up to 25% of a vehicle's fuel use
- Use energy-saving light bulbs: These compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) use up to 75% less energy and last 10 times longer. The LEDs are another great inventions and LEDs are the best option that we have for saving power
- Switch off when you leave: Lighting an empty office wastes enough energy to boil water for 1,000 cups of coffee and doubles a company's annual electric bill
- Recharge you batteries: If not disposed of carefully, batteries can be harmful to the environment due to the acids and metals used in their manufacture. Rechargeable batteries are safer, last longer and therefore cheaper
- Go solar: It may seem expensive, but the government and many states offer programs and rebates to offset the costs
- Turn out the Sun light: Switching off one bulb for one hour saves up to 22,000 watts per year
- Keep your cool: It takes a refrigerator three minutes and a freezer 30 minutes of high-energy use to cool down after being opened for just one minute. So, try avoiding to keep the refrigerator open for more time un-wantedly
- Unplug your charger: 95% of the energy used by a phone charger is wasted by being left plugged in
- Make fast food: (Not the Fast-Food) Cooking quicker uses less energy - switch from the grill to the toaster, from the oven to the microwave
- Consume responsibly: Avoid buying products that are excessively packaged
- Print double-sided: Using both sides of the paper is highly effective and easy. It reduces your paper consumption by up to 50%. Again simple maths :)
- Plant a tree: Trees make a big difference by continually removing carbon from the atmosphere. It is a worth while long-term in initiative. Although, just for fun fact - it's the algae around the globe that produces Oxygen more than the trees and plants.
- Reduce paper consumption: Think before you print. On average, each worker uses 50 sheets a day. Recycle and reuse, or don't print
- Take shorter showers: Making your shower one or two minutes shorter saves up to 2650 litres a month
- Stop dripping: 10 drops a minutes wastes up to 6 litres of water everyday
- Turn off the tap: Doing this when brushing teeth or shaving saves water, because a running faucet wastes 10 litres of water a minute
- Bring out the clothesline: Take advantage of nature - a clothesline takes longer than a dryer but uses no energy, produces no emissions and is free! With each load, an electric dryer generates more than six pounds of greenhouse gases
- Shop fresh: Fresh produce requires less packaging and can help improve your diet and overall health
- Pay bills online: Easy and saves your time to go to billing location
