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Cooking Tips for Eco-Friendly and Healthy Eating

Cooking Tips for Eco-Friendly and Healthy Eating

As you prepare to cook and bake lots of big holiday meals, consider these tips for making each one a little more eco-friendly.
Cook with Green Pans: If you want to call yourself an eco-friendly chef, you need to loose the Teflon pans once and for all. There are several safe and green non-stick pans available [...]

Reverse Your Ceiling Fan to Save Energy in Winter

Reverse Your Ceiling Fan to Save Energy in Winter

This weekend it’s time to fall back for Daylight Savings. When you turn back your clocks, it’s the perfect time to turn back your ceiling fans, too. You can save energy and money on heating by reversing the motion of your ceiling fan to run in a clockwise direction, rather than a counter-clockwise one.
By running [...]

Beware of Vampire Power

Beware of Vampire Power

As kids are getting their Halloween costumes ready and you’re stocking up on candy for trick-or-treaters, remember the vampires — the electricity vampires that is. Even when you think you’ve turned off everything in your home, power is being consumed by plugged-in electrical devices that are switched off or in standby mode.
This standby or vampire [...]

Save Energy and Fight Climate Change with Your PC

Save Energy and Fight Climate Change with Your PC

One of the easiest ways to save energy is to configure the power settings on your PC. You can save quite a bit on your electric bill by just putting your computer in sleep mode when you’re not using it.
Verdiem’s Edison PC Power Management Software makes it easy to do just that.  This software is [...]