Green Tip of the Day

TURNING DOWN THE A/C

Embrace the Summer heat by upping the A/C thermostat by 2 degrees and stripping down to wear as little as possible (depending on who's at the door). You won't notice the difference, but your bank account will. Less A/C use cuts carbon dioxide emissions. Cooling costs hog 12% of all the energy we use.

If 10,000 people turn up their thermostat by 2 degrees this summer, in a year we'll avert the total (that includes everything) annual CO2 emissions of 61 Americans.