Go Green Tips for January 5th

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 Wednesday, January 5th:

• Saving energy can be easy when you’ve changed out all of your lights for CFL’s or LED’s. They run cooler and longer and use a lot less energy!
• Careful when purchasing CFL’s and LED’s, you usually get what you pay for. If it’s cheap, it won’t stand the test of time, unfortunately. But the investment in a quality product is worth it’s weight in gold!

This week, we’re talking about ways to contradict the CVPS rate hike effective this week. Here’s your reality check (cha ching!) If you lower your thermostat on your water heater by one degree this year, you’ll save enough energy to surf the web for thirty three hours. My daughter’s on Facebook for at least that long over a course of just a weekend! AND if one thousand people joined you, we could power a local school for 6 school days. My point? It all adds up, every light switched off, everytime you unplug that appliance before leaving the house for the day; that one small step, when multiplied with others, can make the impact. You can counter the rate hike, if you’re willing to just open your eyes a bit wider to notice the extra lights on in the room that you really don’t need; or that computer that’s sitting there waiting for someone to notice it’s still running, long after your child has switched from Skype chat to cell phone. One more: if you skip using the blow drier one day this month you could save enough energy to run your fish tank for two days, and if one hundred people joined you, we could, for one whole year, power 51 office computers. Yes sir, powering down on the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!