hey Allegra from ember living here today
to talk about the top ways to conserve
water energy and gas whenever we talk
about green living we always talk about
how to use resources in a really smart
efficient way so one of the things that
you can do that's really easy and
important is when you're going to buy an
appliance look for Energy Star rated
appliances this is a federally mandated
program that lets you know how much
energy an appliance is going to use and
you can easily compare is this
refrigerator more efficient than this
refrigerator and it will even give you a
breakdown of how much it will cost to
run that washer/dryer washing machine
appliance especially refrigerators
because refrigerators are on a hundred
percent of the time so you can save a
lot of money by buying an
energy-efficient appliance secondly buy
energy-efficient lighting and light
bulbs we go into great detail on another
video about how much money you can save
and how much energy you can save using
LED or CFL light bulbs over incandescent
bulbs third conserve water when you're
taking a shower
consider getting some sort of timer
there's these cute things called shower
coaches that make sure that you only
take five minutes hours or getting
something like a shower head with what's
called an AV button it's a little on-off
switch so that way when you're lathering
up you can turn water off another way
you can conserve water is by capturing
any of your fluent that is safe and
using it in your garden so for instance
there's gray water and there's black
water gray water is from washing your
hands taking a shower it's the water
from your washer you can easily use that
for your plants and then you're giving
that water a second life rather than it
just going down the drain in your
kitchen a great way to save energy is to
do what I call boil and sit basically a
lot of things that require boiling don't
have to be boiled the entire time so
when you're cooking pasta you can
actually boil it for a little bit of
time and then turn off the flame cover
it and it will cook through that way we
have another video that goes into
greater detail about that smart strips
are one of my favorite ways to conserve
energy when you plug in a smart strip it
will cut the Phantom load of your house
which can accumulate as much as 13
percent of your households energy bill
so a smart strip is a super easy way to
turn off your appliances quickly and to
cut phantom loads finally my favorite
tip in terms of conserving energy
resources
probably my most controversial as well
is to drive 55 most cars are calibrated
to burn fuel most efficiently at 55
miles an hour and what you'll find by
doing a little testing is that you can
save as much as 20 to 50 percent off
your gas bill by driving 55 so think
about it you can cut your gas usage your
carbon footprint your gas bill by 20 to
50 percent simply by driving 55 there's
really no faster easier more
cost-effective way to improve the
environment improve your wallet and
reduce your use of fossil fuels so
consider driving 55 I know it's my team
slow but actually I find it very
relaxing I've had people tell me that
they don't have road rage as much when
they drive 55 and that's definitely a
good thing so tips on conserving energy
Thanks