Share your tips for a greener house and life
All tips by and for residents
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
- Container and paper recycling in Monroe County
- Refillable milk containers
- Trade your grid power bill for a green solar power bill
- A home humidifier can lower your heating bill
- Lower your heating bills with a programmable thermostat
- Check/change your furnace filter monthly to save energy
- Milk and meats
- Voice your choice
- Pittsford Dairy also provides refillable milk containers :)
- Walk, bike, car-pool, or use mass transit
- Wear a winter wooly
- Think twice before turning on the air conditioning
- Schedule your errands to be done together, and map an efficient route
- Winter feet
- Shopping partner
- Websites for comparing energy options
- Using recycled denim insulation
- Stop using plastic bags for grocery
- Wind power
- Avoid using the car for small distances
- Eating local
- Eating locally: local farm
- Try a rice sock to stay warm!
- Save hot water in the shower
- Choose your plastic before you buy
- NYS Help
- Light bulbs: small investments can pay big dividends
- Compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs
- Replace the air in your tires with nitrogen
- Dry your clothes in the sun
- Cut your grass with a push mower instead of a gas mower
- Furnace Airflow
- Get an energy audit
- Do not buy oversized equipments
- Save the planet. Go veg!
- How can you save on gas?
- Power strips that auto-turn off and on
- More ways to save gas
- Reduce junk mail
- Composting
- Sneaker Recycling
- Plastic cap recycling
- Battery recycling
- Low-flow showerheads
- Battery/electronics/computer recycling
- Recycled paper towels and toilet paper
- Insulation and insulating window treatments
- Dry cleaning
- Use a battery powered mower
- Compost food waste
- Be careful not to overheat or overcool your rooms
- Clean or replace air filters as recommended
- When you buy a new car…
- Set your clothes washer on “warm” or “cold,” not on “hot”
- Run a full dishwasher
- Turn down your water-heater thermostat
- Turn your refrigerator down
- When it is time to replace old appliances…
- Cellulose insulation
- Permeable paving
- Fertilizer and pollution
- Rain barrels
- PV (photovoltaic) solar power generation
- Don’t let your car’s air conditioner leak
- Close the damper in your fire place
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Disclaimer
The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Town of Brighton or ColorBrightonGreen.org. We are not responsible for the accuracy of the information contained in the tips. All facts should be independently verified.
Modified: 01/24/2010
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