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Who needs an air conditioner in the Caribbean 
If you follow a few simple steps, you can stay cool indoors on hot days without an air conditioner, even in the Caribbean where we're lucky enough to live....

Negative fine system for leaving lights on 
My kids kept leaving lights on when they walked out of a room. I got tired of nagging them, so I came up with a positive motivator that really worked....

Greening Bath Time  
It's important to stay clean with a regular bath or shower, but you can do it without wasting a ton of hot water if you apply the "reduce, reuse, recycle"...

In cold weather, leave your oven open as it cools 
No point letting the heat in your oven go to waste when you're done baking a cake or roasting a meal - open the oven and use that extra heat to warm up ...

Take Away An Executive's Shoes and Socks and Save Energy! 
Bare feet let your body cool faster in warm weather - why not let the executives take off their formal footwear, and turn down the office air conditioning?...

Dry your towels on a line first 
Towels dried on a line get stiff and prickly - but you can soften them with a quick run in the dryer afterward. Save energy by drying on the line first....

I Have to Save Money!!  Not rated yet
The economy stinks, my bills keep rising, my son’s tuition is about to double as he enters high school, and I have to save money. There are not a lot ...

How we keep our cottage warm  Not rated yet
Our cottage is old and uninsulated but we still manage to keep nice and warm when we stay up there for a week of winter wonderland skiing and snowshoeing....

Saving energy from the bottom up  Not rated yet
The crawl space in my fixer upper home was causing a number of problems in my home each winter, from cold floors to freezing pipes. I needed a way to fix ...

Use a ceiling fan with the air conditioner  Not rated yet
Ceiling fans use less energy than air conditioners. But if it'too hot, the fan just blows hot air at you. Using AC along with a ceiling fan is a good compromise....

Heating the Home in the Winter without the Furnace  Not rated yet
I used to pay $300 a month on heat in the winter. Now with my fireplace insert and a free supply of wood from local forests, I pay much less than that ...

Dressing to Save on Energy Expenditures  Not rated yet
Years ago, I had four children and a divorce within six years, then was widowed from a second husband in under one year. The children's father and my husband'...

Energy Saving Lightbulbs - A Fast, and Easy Way to Save Energy  Not rated yet
One fast easy way I discovered to save energy in my home was to replace most of its lightbulbs with energy efficient bulbs, which use about a quarter as ...

Pre cooler for incoming water to house  Not rated yet
Tap water can get unpleasantly warm in the desert - how about a way to cool it down inside a water storage tank, in a cool room, on its way into your house?...

Water Ways - How I save on water  Not rated yet
Save on hot water - catch your shower water in a bucket and use it later for laundry, handwashing, watering potted plants, prerinsing dishes, and so on....

Plastic sheets on old single pane glass and or useless windows  Not rated yet
We put up plastic sheeting in January 2009 on the windows that face the front of our apartment complex in Shanghai, China. We can't solve the construction ...

Keeping freezing water open with a bubbler  Not rated yet
For years we used two de-icing machines to keep winter ice away from our cottage dock. Now a homemade bubbler does a better job, and uses less electricity ...