May 11 2004
How to Minimize The Environment’s Destruction
Meta-Efficient: A Guide To the Most Efficient Things In The World:
The information presented here will be of interest to those who wish to live more simply and self-sufficiently.
An average household spends $5000 on utilities and gas per year. Incorporating these tools and techniques can dramatically decrease your dependence on petroleum, electricity, gas for heating and cooling, municipal water and sewage utilities. Once implemented these sources will be available to you perpetually.
An average household spends $5000 on utilities and gas per year. Incorporating these tools and techniques can dramatically decrease your dependence on petroleum, electricity, gas for heating and cooling, municipal water and sewage utilities. Once implemented these sources will be available to you perpetually.
A lot of the products and techniques they recommend are too expensive for me to implement. Will being sensitive to the environment ever be affordable?
I replaced every incandecent light in my house with those new energy saver bulbs. It’s difficult to tell how much I’m saving in electricity right now because the weather is beginning to get nice, so we’re using less heat in the house. After a full year, I should be able to see the difference. I spent about $75 replacing 30 bulbs.
I think I’ll recoup my expenses within two years, even though the box suggests it’ll happen within the first year.