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Power saving actions you can do at home
Simple things you can do in and around your home to save money, power and help reduce our impact on the environment.



http://www.savepower.nsw.gov.au/hous...your_home.aspx

Though I believe our impact on the environment is negligible. Conservation is always a good idea.

Negligible being a subjective term.

Deforestation isn't a problem? Mercury levels in the air no big deal? Re-routing, damming waterways?

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"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read." -- Karl Krauss

1. Buy store brands - they don't advertise as much, so they don't use as much paper and ink as name brands. They can also usually save 20-40% in cost as compared to name brands.

2. Avoid single use products, including prepackaged foods.

3. Minimize the number of trips to your local grocery store - buying a weeks (or months) worth of food at once minimizes travel cost, time, and the number of impulse purchases.

If everyone starts being efficient and saving money this recession will never end.

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In other words, our economic paradigm is entirely reliant upon our gluttony.

Unfortunately, that is no longer a sustainable model. Even if we wanted it to be.

There is no "end" to this recession, no matter how much resources we waste.

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"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read." -- Karl Krauss

i just wish the kids would shut stuff off....

Gluttony, what a misinformed, under-educated statement.

Yep. We cannot keep on doing things the way we have been.
Change is necessary for survival.

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Our boom of the past decade was based on overspending and waste.
More house than we need for a home.
More auto than we need.
etc...

We became a society where our self esteem depended on our materail posessions, not on who and what we were.

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More beatings may be required. They will catch on.

A hammer applied judiciously to an Xbox usually gets thier attention.

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Pure Bullshit.

I agree it was bullshit, but true bullshit.

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Actually it just shows that if someone says something enough times idiots will believe its true.

Are you saying that big homes and big cars/trucks did not become status symbols vs what they needed?

SUV = Status Upgrade Vehicle.

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I'd rather just have balanced bias... like Fox is