Refrigerator is the most commonly used appliance in our household and nowadays it is safe to say that every household have at least one refrigerator. It has been tallied as one of household’s highest electricity consumer. Maximizing the use of one’s refrigerator can lessen one’s electric consumption which can save you money and at the same time help the environment in its fight against pollution.
Here are a few refrigerator electricity saving tips:
1. It is wise to position the refrigerator away from direct sunlight or appliances that emulate heat (oven, stove and etc.).
2. Set the temperature of the fridge to 36° – 40° F and freezer to 0° - 5° F. It is unnecessary to set the temperature lower, since it will just use more electricity by as much as 20 – 25%.
3. Avoid having an empty refrigerator as the motor tend to keep running as there is nothing to hold the cold they generate. Put a couple of containers filled with water to remedy this situation.
4. Allow hot foods to cool first before storing it inside the refrigerator.
5. On a regular basis defrost manual frost freezers when the ice build-up to over ¼ inch. Since it works harder and thus consume more electricity.
6. Keep food covered when stored inside the refrigerator.
7. Fix if door seal damage (rubber or magnetic strip) since cold air will escapes and this make refrigerator work harder and thus consume more electricity.
8. Thawing frozen foods in the fridge helps cool the fridge as they defrost.
9. Keep freezer full but not overloaded. Just give at least 1 inch of space around for air to circulate.
By putting electricity saving tips in practice, we are doing our part as an individual in fight pollution that benefit everybody at the same time save money that will benefit us.
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Energy Saving Tips at Home : Closet Organizing
A closet that looks like a mountain of cluttered things can still be improved once you learn the trick of organizing. But organizing needs commitment to make it into a habit of doing things once. Having an organized closet can save a lot of time and money.
Why? Let me set-up a situation. With clothes folded evenly in a shelf, wrinkles will be eliminated and instead of digging deeper into the mountain of cluttered garments, you will be able to choose the clothes you need for the day in a few seconds. Thus, you have saved time for searching which usually takes a lot of time and you would save electricity bill from ironing a wrinkled garment again. In a sense it can be another Energy saving tips at home.
Tips in organizing your closet:
1. First, throw away unused or worn out garments. Be practical with the sentimental garments. This way, you will be left with a fewer garments but are the essentials.
2. Arrange each kind in a single pile. Like all shirts in one pile, all pants in another pile. Assigning a specific place for everything will make it easier for you to find the garment and placing it back into your closet after laundry.
3. Immediately throw the dirty clothes into a hamper or laundry pile. Schedule for a laundry at least twice a week, this way you will have fewer clothes to return to pile in your closet and you will have lesser time to do it.
4. Now after seeing all your garments in place, you commit yourself to a routine to do the first 3 steps every time you open your closet.
You may also ask the help of professional consultants for personal matters or preferences. Usually they can suggest you to add shelf organizers and remodel to customize your cabinets. But you have to request them to explain to you how to use the newly remodeled closet.
Why? Let me set-up a situation. With clothes folded evenly in a shelf, wrinkles will be eliminated and instead of digging deeper into the mountain of cluttered garments, you will be able to choose the clothes you need for the day in a few seconds. Thus, you have saved time for searching which usually takes a lot of time and you would save electricity bill from ironing a wrinkled garment again. In a sense it can be another Energy saving tips at home.
Tips in organizing your closet:
1. First, throw away unused or worn out garments. Be practical with the sentimental garments. This way, you will be left with a fewer garments but are the essentials.
2. Arrange each kind in a single pile. Like all shirts in one pile, all pants in another pile. Assigning a specific place for everything will make it easier for you to find the garment and placing it back into your closet after laundry.
3. Immediately throw the dirty clothes into a hamper or laundry pile. Schedule for a laundry at least twice a week, this way you will have fewer clothes to return to pile in your closet and you will have lesser time to do it.
4. Now after seeing all your garments in place, you commit yourself to a routine to do the first 3 steps every time you open your closet.
You may also ask the help of professional consultants for personal matters or preferences. Usually they can suggest you to add shelf organizers and remodel to customize your cabinets. But you have to request them to explain to you how to use the newly remodeled closet.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Top 20 Benefits of Exercise
Exercise is a great way to feel good about yourself, it can elevate self esteem and energy. To iterate here is the top 20 benefits of exercise :
1. Elevates your metabolism so that you burn more calories everyday.
2. Increases your aerobic capacity (fitness level). This gives you the ability to go through your day with less relative energy expenditure. This enables a "fit" person to have more energy at the end of the day and to get more accomplished during the day with less fatigue.
3. Maintains, tones, and strengthens your muscle. Exercise also increases your muscular endurance.
4. Decreases your blood pressure.
5. Increases the oxidation (breakdown and use) of fat.
6. Increases HDL (good) cholesterol.
7. Makes the heart a more efficient pump by increasing stroke volume.
8. Increases hemoglobin concentration in your blood. Hemoglobin is part of the red blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.
9. Decreases the tendency of the blood to clot in the blood vessels. This is important because small clots traveling in the blood are often the cause of heart attacks and strokes.
10. Increases the strength of the bones.
11. Causes the development of new blood vessels in the heart and other muscles.
12. Enlarges the arteries that supply blood to the heart.
13. Decreases blood levels of triglycerides (fat).
14. Improves control of blood sugar.
15. Improves sleep patterns.
16. Increases the efficiency of the digestive system which may reduce the incidence of colon cancer.
17. Increases the thickness of cartilage in joints which has a protective effect on the joints.
18. Decreases a woman's risk of developing endometriosis by 50%.
19. Increases the amount of blood that flows to the skin making it look and feel healthier.
20. Exercise, in addition to all the physiological and anatomical benefits, just makes you feel GREAT!
Just a reminder don't forget to eat a balance diet, exercising without a proper diet to support this lifestyle, will do you more harm than good.
On a personal note "Dieting and exercise should go together hand in hand to promote a better and healthy lifestyle." A healthy lifestyle means more energy to deal with family matters
Thanks for the reading material Alfred of Testcountry
1. Elevates your metabolism so that you burn more calories everyday.
2. Increases your aerobic capacity (fitness level). This gives you the ability to go through your day with less relative energy expenditure. This enables a "fit" person to have more energy at the end of the day and to get more accomplished during the day with less fatigue.
3. Maintains, tones, and strengthens your muscle. Exercise also increases your muscular endurance.
4. Decreases your blood pressure.
5. Increases the oxidation (breakdown and use) of fat.
6. Increases HDL (good) cholesterol.
7. Makes the heart a more efficient pump by increasing stroke volume.
8. Increases hemoglobin concentration in your blood. Hemoglobin is part of the red blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.
9. Decreases the tendency of the blood to clot in the blood vessels. This is important because small clots traveling in the blood are often the cause of heart attacks and strokes.
10. Increases the strength of the bones.
11. Causes the development of new blood vessels in the heart and other muscles.
12. Enlarges the arteries that supply blood to the heart.
13. Decreases blood levels of triglycerides (fat).
14. Improves control of blood sugar.
15. Improves sleep patterns.
16. Increases the efficiency of the digestive system which may reduce the incidence of colon cancer.
17. Increases the thickness of cartilage in joints which has a protective effect on the joints.
18. Decreases a woman's risk of developing endometriosis by 50%.
19. Increases the amount of blood that flows to the skin making it look and feel healthier.
20. Exercise, in addition to all the physiological and anatomical benefits, just makes you feel GREAT!
Just a reminder don't forget to eat a balance diet, exercising without a proper diet to support this lifestyle, will do you more harm than good.
On a personal note "Dieting and exercise should go together hand in hand to promote a better and healthy lifestyle." A healthy lifestyle means more energy to deal with family matters
Thanks for the reading material Alfred of Testcountry
Recycled Ink Cartridges: How to Help the Environment and Save Money
Recycled ink cartridges are a great way to do your part for the environment and save money on the purchase. So much energy and resource material is used in making technological products. And just think about how often you’ve seen a computer monitor or TV laying on the side of the road waiting to be picked up? All of that waste eventually goes in our landfills, which are already too full.
Recycled printer cartridges, then, can be a really practical and inexpensive way to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Most efforts to stop pollution and limit waste start at the individual level, which means you could make a real impact on the world by following a few simple steps.
Recycle
Let’s say your current ink cartridges run out of ink. Normally, you just throw them into the trash and go out and purchase a new one, right? This is where you can make the first change. The first way you can help the environment is to recycle your printer cartridges. Nowadays, most cartridges come with a postage-paid envelope in which you can mail the empty printer cartridge back to the manufacturer. The company will then melt down the plastics to make new cartridges. This helps reduce resource consumption and it saves you money. How, you ask?
Buy Recycled
The next time you find yourself running out of ink, don’t just pick up any old cartridge to replace the old one. Instead, buy recycled ink cartridges. They are most often cheaper than the new cartridges and you are helping preserve valuable resources and energy by doing so. Plus, you won’t even notice a difference in print quality as these cartridges are brand new—they’re just made from recycled materials. Even so, there is still one other way you can be good to the environment and your bank account in regards to printer ink cartridges purchases.
Refill Cartridges
Refilling kits are a type of recycling in a sense. You are not purchasing a new cartridge, rather, just the ink that goes inside of it. Nothing more is being wasted in the process. When you run out of ink, you can order a refill kit, which contains instructions and the ink itself. You’ll simple refill the empty printer cartridge in your own home. You save money and again, conserve the environment.
Recycled ink cartridges are the way of the immediate future. All you need is the will power to try something different and you’ll be saving money and going green all at the same time! That’s a hard combination to beat, don’t you think?
See how easy it is? With a bit of change, you can make a big difference by using recycled printer cartridges, refill kits and recycling your own cartridges. You can even stop by most office supplies stores these days and drop off your empty cartridges to be recycled in a special bin. Everybody’s on the recycling bandwagon, so why aren’t you?
Special thanks goes to Alfred, a very good friend of mine for providing me this article.
Recycled printer cartridges, then, can be a really practical and inexpensive way to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Most efforts to stop pollution and limit waste start at the individual level, which means you could make a real impact on the world by following a few simple steps.
Recycle
Let’s say your current ink cartridges run out of ink. Normally, you just throw them into the trash and go out and purchase a new one, right? This is where you can make the first change. The first way you can help the environment is to recycle your printer cartridges. Nowadays, most cartridges come with a postage-paid envelope in which you can mail the empty printer cartridge back to the manufacturer. The company will then melt down the plastics to make new cartridges. This helps reduce resource consumption and it saves you money. How, you ask?
Buy Recycled
The next time you find yourself running out of ink, don’t just pick up any old cartridge to replace the old one. Instead, buy recycled ink cartridges. They are most often cheaper than the new cartridges and you are helping preserve valuable resources and energy by doing so. Plus, you won’t even notice a difference in print quality as these cartridges are brand new—they’re just made from recycled materials. Even so, there is still one other way you can be good to the environment and your bank account in regards to printer ink cartridges purchases.
Refill Cartridges
Refilling kits are a type of recycling in a sense. You are not purchasing a new cartridge, rather, just the ink that goes inside of it. Nothing more is being wasted in the process. When you run out of ink, you can order a refill kit, which contains instructions and the ink itself. You’ll simple refill the empty printer cartridge in your own home. You save money and again, conserve the environment.
Recycled ink cartridges are the way of the immediate future. All you need is the will power to try something different and you’ll be saving money and going green all at the same time! That’s a hard combination to beat, don’t you think?
See how easy it is? With a bit of change, you can make a big difference by using recycled printer cartridges, refill kits and recycling your own cartridges. You can even stop by most office supplies stores these days and drop off your empty cartridges to be recycled in a special bin. Everybody’s on the recycling bandwagon, so why aren’t you?
Special thanks goes to Alfred, a very good friend of mine for providing me this article.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Electricity Saving Tips at home
Pollution is currently widespread in our surroundings today. In order for us to help reduce risks for power shortage, every household needs to do their part. Every time you use power like electricity, you are also burning fuel in power plants. Thus when you save electricity, you are reducing air pollution. Below are some tips on saving electricity at home.
1. Turn off lights when no one is using them, like in an empty room.
2. Replace incandescent lamps with energy saving compact fluorescent lamps.
3. Unplug appliances when not in use.
4. Do not put uncovered liquid in your refrigerator as this will give more work to your compressor.
5. When using the washing machine, do laundry in full load.
6. Hang your clothes to dry whenever possible.
So bottom line is conserve power to make mother Earth a whole lot better for everybody
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1. Turn off lights when no one is using them, like in an empty room.
2. Replace incandescent lamps with energy saving compact fluorescent lamps.
3. Unplug appliances when not in use.
4. Do not put uncovered liquid in your refrigerator as this will give more work to your compressor.
5. When using the washing machine, do laundry in full load.
6. Hang your clothes to dry whenever possible.
So bottom line is conserve power to make mother Earth a whole lot better for everybody
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