Go Green Tips for December 14th

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Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Tuesday, December 14th:

• Buying local is the trend this year and a great way to do it is to pick up some Middlebury Money! It makes an ideal stocking stuffer or gift for your kids’ teachers. It’s simply ideal for that someone in your life who is nearly impossible to buy for. Look to buy Middlebury Money at The National Bank of Middlebury, The Vermont Book Shop and The Middlebury Inn!

Upon receipt of our electic bill this week, my husband and I have reason to pat ourselves or each other on the back. We are officially using less electricity than we did this time last year. How we did it, was a few choices and sacrifices we put in motion, and everyone one of them not as painful as we thought they’d be. Our hot water heater is now set on 120 degrees, Its colder out, but that doesn’t mean the water needs to be hotter. We also make use of our ceiling fans. We set them on reverse which circulates warm air near the ceiling back down to your living space. We have high ceilings, the fans are a must! And then our simplest sacrifice has been keeping a better eye on the thermostat. Though I’m making more use of my sweater collection, we are not using as much energy when we keep the temperature a bit cooler. The biggest sacrifice there is listening to my fourteen year old complain, but that’s pretty much par for the course, anyway! Gripe, gripe, gripe and it’s my job to give her something to gripe about! This is the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!