Go Green Tips for January 7th

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 Fri, January 7th:

• Washing your clothes in cold water, as opposed to warm or hot will save you energy in the long run. Most of today’s detergents are meant for cold water wash, anyway, so I can promise you won’t notice the difference, except in your electric bill!
• Paul in Bristol emailed me with this great tip to save energy: The rule of his house is only one light turned on in a room at a time. He admits, though, that there exceptions to that rule, like when his wife dropped one of her expensive diamond earrings. The search for that required every light in the house!

This week, we’ve been talking about ways to contradict the CVPS rate hike effective this week. Here’s some great stats that I pulled from another informative website: willyoujoinus.com. If you use a CFL in place of one lightbulb this year, you’ll save enough energy to play a video game for two hundred and one hours (not that I’d encourage that, unless it’s a wii, those things are a blast!) or if one hundred people joined you in replacing that one lightbulb, you could power six traffic lights for a year. And all it took was one lightbulb. Here’s another: I gave you the tip about washing your clothes in cold water earlier in the show. If you wash just one load in cold water instead of hot you usually use, you could save enough energy to read 42 emails OR if you found one thousand friends to join us, we could power a fire station for two whole weeks. That’s what I call an impact and all it started with was one load of laundry. Now, perhaps you’re one of the lucky ones, who can afford a higher electric bill. For the rest of us, though, the CVPS rate hike just isn’t in the family budget. My New Year’s Resolution this year? To not only keep my bill status quo, I’m after a bigger prize, it’s going down, baby, lower than it’s ever been. How will I do it? Small steps to add up to a big impact. This is the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!