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What Can You Do?
Lots!!! Here are some ideas:
1. Reduce your energy use at home, some ideas:
| Take shorter showers |
Start a compost pile |
| Reduce, reuse, recycle!!! |
Turn water off when you're
brushing teeth or washing dishes |
| Wear clothes more than once |
Make sure you turn everything off
when not using! |
| Change lightbulbs to compact
fluorescent |
Turn down thermostats -- wear
sweaters! |
| Consider switching slowly to
solar (ie hot water heaters) |
Don't heat spaces you don't use (ie
garages) |
| Don't heat swimming pools during
periods when not in use |
Buy more efficient appliances |
| Only run dishwasher or washer
when full |
Reduce use of dryer, hang up
clothes to dry |
| Watch TV less, play outside
instead or read! |
Don't use disposables (paper
plates, napkins, etc.) |
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2. Reduce the amount of gasoline you use, some
ideas:
| Convince your parents to drive a
hybrid car |
Tell your parents to drive at the
speed limit |
| Run errands in groups to avoid
extra trips |
Use the schoolbus! |
| Reduce your idling,
except in traffic: "if you're stopped for more than ten,
turn it off and on again!" |
3. Sign Up for Clean Energy:
Sign up for the Connecticut Clean Energy Option
(CTCleanEnergyOptionsSM),
to
offset your energy usage with wind and landfill gas renewable energy credits
-- displacing energy from suppliers using coal, oil, and gas
generation, which create carbon emissions that exacerbate global
warming.
Sign Up
Now for Clean Energy!
4. Join Us!
Join our
Clean Energy Sign-Up campaign to help make Connecticut
electricity clean and green! You can win great prizes!
Register
for the campaign!
You can also
contact
us to get involved in Little People Big Changes' other projects
and organizing activities.
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