[gemy]

I just lost a long post aggrrr celstu question why no printing at home. I rarely print out anything anymore, but is it that much cheaper?

Also I found a site about how to save electricity. One of the ideas I'm going to implement. Tape up plastic over your windows, and yes even if you have energy efficient windows.
Try not to use the central a/c or heat, instead apparently just heat the space you use in your home by using energy efficient space heaters. Install ceiling fans the kind you can reverse the air flow on. We do have a programmable thermastat, and I set the heat for 68 when we aren't home, prior to our Yorkie coming to live here it was 65, that is the same setting for nightsleeping too. I turn off the air at night if overnight temp is 20 celsius or less.

We recycle a lot here,actually our city has a recycling program and we are pretty good with it.

We also compost and use this for fertilizer for our garden. I spot water plants when there has been no rain. We don't have a vege garden yet, just some tomatoes and herbs, maybe next year.

I don't shower daily, I bathe every other day, and use sponge baths.

Instead of buying memo paper, I use the envelopes from bills.

I support our local farmers buying from our organic farmers market.

We are confused about transportation, we don't want to buy a second say electric vehicle because that means two cars on the road, and currently we only have our Dodge caravan. We use this all the time, and with three dogs, and showing, and camping, and hiking, we need a vehicle with space enough. If we ditch the van and buy just the small car and rent van it was like about $90 a day, holy cow. Every weekend we use this van to do one of the aforementioned activities.


Lights are always out in our house when we are not in that room. I know there is more we can do, just looking at what we are going to do next.

I too would like a forum to discuss ways we can help our world. I think good links would be awesome too