Go Green Tips for January 3, 2011...Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year from 92.1 WVTK's Go Green Ride at Five with Sarah Stone!!!

Gotta tip you want to share with Sarah and the Go Green Ride at Five? Email her: sarah@921wvtk.com!

Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Monday, January 3rd:

• Winter means more electricity usage! One way to cut back is to run the drier a bit less. Take advantage of wood stoves and fireplaces by hanging up that laundry by the fire. I love how it makes my clothes smell! Can you do all your laundry this way…no. But a few less articles in the drier, is a few steps in the right direction!

It’s 2011 and I think I’m still in shock. Anyone else feel this way? I don’t know what makes this particular year such a shock to my senses. Perhaps it’s the finish of the first decade of the millennium? That could be it. Coming soon to a 2011 electric bill near you will be the latest CVPS rate hike. I just got the news that it was approved by the Vermont Public Service Board to the tune of seven point four six percent effective as of Tuesday’s bill. Now, under this rate change, a residential customer using 500 kilowatt-hours per month would experience a $5.77 increase on their bill, from $78. 11 to $83.88. For my husband and I who live in a modest home, that increase will be a bit more. Last month our electric bill was $280., and that’s with heating our home. Usually, as a family of four, we use about 800 kilowatt hours. I consider that the norm after speaking with a few friends. Next month, I expect a twenty dollar or so increase. I consider that an “ouch”. So, thanks to the immediate change in my electric bill, my New Year’s resolution? You guessed it! Trying to keep our power usage down even further than what we might have been achieving before. If my daughter once considered me the light-switch-sheriff, she ain’t seen nothin’ yet! We’ll be talking all this week about ways we can keep “paying the electric bill” an obtainable objective. Powering down on the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!