Good evening readers, Alex Renaud from Feenix here.

I was watching a tv. show the other day called “ The Hour”, If you have not heard of it, it’s the one with George Stroumboulopoulos, he used to be the Much Music guy! If you have not ever watched his show you should really look into it.

One thing that his show has started is called “One Million Acts of Green”. What this is, is that you log on online and you submit different acts of green that you have taken, pretty simple. In the most recent show I watched he said that we were at 1.2 million acts, which is excellent!
Although just because we have reached his goal, does not mean that we should stop, we should actually the exact opposite and push forward and continue George’s green initiative. If you are one of those who would like to start making your own acts but don’t know where to start. The easy answer would be to simply change all your light bulbs to new high efficiency eco-friendly bulbs. They are easily and readily available now.

For all the rest of you who would like to do even more. I have listed a few more things that you could do around the house that would have a positive impact on our environment.

• Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month.

• If you have central air conditioning, do not close vents in unused rooms.

• Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120.

• Wrap your water heater in an insulated blanket.

• Turn down or shut off your water heater when you will be away for extended periods.

• Turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time.

• Set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5 .

• When using an oven, minimize door opening while it is in use; it reduces oven temperature by 25 to 30 every time you open the door.

• Clean the lint filter in your dryer after every load so that it uses less energy.
• Install weather stripping around all doors and windows.

• Shut off electrical equipment in the evening when you leave work.

• Plant trees to shade your home.

• Shade outside air conditioning units by trees or other means.

• Replace old windows with energy efficient ones.

• Use cold water instead of warm or hot water when possible.

• Connect your outdoor lights to a timer.

Of course these are only a few different things you could do but if you have any other ideas we would love to hear them.
Also let us know which one of these changes you have made to your home.

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Alex Renaud