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A Handful of Green Living Tips for Your Home

Here is a list of Green Living tips that we’ve started to compile from various magazines and web sites. Maybe you’ll find a new tip or two. Also, if you have a tip or something you do please leave us comments.

When drying your clothes in the dryer , try tossing in a couple of dry towels. These towels will help pull moisture out of the other wet clothes, which reduces the number of minutes you’ll need to keep the dryer running.

Wrapping your water heater in an insulating blanket , available for about $10 at any hardware store, can help lower your energy bill by retaining more of the heat produced by the water heater. Another valuable trick is to turn down the thermostat setting on the unit to WARM, or 120 degrees. It is also safer to keep your water temp lower if you have young children in the house.

Put your computer to sleep. If you put your computer in sleep mode when not in use, you can save about $75 a year on your electric bill, according to the EPA . Also, when your computer is not in use, make sure you fully close programs that run in the background looking for updates, such as iTunes and spyware. You can find your computer’s sleep settings and energy management settings in your System Preferences. (If you can’t find that, it is typically on the screensaver settings under Power Settings).

Keep water in your refrigerator. In order to have your refrigerator run efficiently, it should be kept full, but not overstuffed. If you do not have a lot of food in your refrigerator, consider adding a pitcher of water. Not only will this provide instant cold water, but the pitcher acts as an insulator or cold pack would in a cooler. Over and under crowding your refrigerator makes it work harder and is a waste of energy consumption.

source: cleaning.tips.net; Women’s Health Magazine, thedailygreen.com