energy conservation

Take Care of Texas: Save Money. Save Water. Save Energy.

Tips to save up to $1,300 per year!

Interested in learning more about water conservation and rainwater harvesting for your home? Join the TCEQ and The Home Depot for an Earth Day consumer-education event on Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., at 16 Home Depot stores across Texas.

Participants will learn tips to help save money, water, and energy, and will learn how to build a rain barrel for use at home.
For $50, participants may build their own rain barrels to take home. (optional)
The first 30 customers to pre-register will receive a FREE Take Care of Texas reusable bag, a faucet aerator, and a compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb at the event.
Get tips to save up to $1,300 a year!
For more information and to find a location near you, visit www.takecareoftexas.org/partners.

Heather and Jeff Barrie have created a short video update to Kilowatt Ours, and posted it on YouTube. Since finishing the original film, this cute, caring couple has moved out of their basement apartment and now live above ground in a small home in East Nashville (a cool place to be). They brought their energy saving passion with them and in this video they show us how they have managed to keep their electricity usage at less than half that of the average home in their state of Tennessee.

You can view the YouTube video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GijpkvXNM

Please watch it and let them know what you think.

The complete, high res version of "Jeff and Heather's home energy saving tips" is included as an extra feature on the Kilowatt Ours DVD available at
http://www.KilowattOurs.org/donate.

As a bonus they provided a link to their new and improved version of How to Save $1000 Per Year on Your Electric Bill.
http://kilowattourscommunity.org/forum/uploads/98/KilowattOurs-TenSteps.pdf

Our thanks go to Jeff and Heather Barrie, who continue to inspire all of us.