Archive for the 'Environmental Green' Category
Al Gore says “Buy these things”
(see down below for Al’s recommendations)
1. Rylan started buying compact florescent bulbs. We use them as the old tungsten bulbs burn out. They are really nice. The only downsides are that they take 20 seconds to “warm up” to their full brightness and I don’t think you can use them on dimmers.
And these downsides are not terrible. The warm up phase is nice when waking up the kids in the morning….its not immediately bright when you switch on the recessed lighting in their room. And the dimmer thing is no big deal. We just keep tungstens in the lights that we dim. They tend to be lights we use less frequently anyway.
2. We don’t have any outdoor lights to speak of.
3. I have a heat pump and everything I understand says that a programmable thermostat is not recommended for a heat pump system.
4. I changed my furnace (blower) air filter from one of those electrostatic ones to just a huge filter (20 x 24 x 4″). Not only does it last for a whole year! but it also is more efficient from an air flow perspective. If you have one of those electrostatic air filters, you might look into it.
5. I guess I should get a blanket for my hot water heater. Home Depot, here we come :-)
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