Sustainability at Home

Whether at Passy or at home, here are some easy sustainability tips:

• Electronics continue to drain electricity when they’re plugged in even when they are off. Save power by turning off your power-bars or unplugging electronics that aren’t in use.
• Don’t flush floss down the toilet. It gathers in water treatment plants, tangles in the filtration systems, and causes hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage each year for the city.
• Light right! Use compact fluorescent light bulbs. They produce the same amount of light, use one-third of the electricity, and last up to ten times as long.
• Remember to turn off your faucet. Letting your faucet run for five minutes uses about as much energy as a sixty watt light bulb consumes in fourteen hours.

See the World Wildlife Fund for more green ideas! http://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/green-tips