Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
San Antonio- The Mayors of the state's largest cities joined together today and called on all Texans to replace their old-fashioned light bulbs with energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
Five Texas Mayors are leading energy conservation efforts in their own cities and joined together to help reduce the state's energy bill.
"It's important for each of us to do our part," said Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. "We started converting to more energy efficient lighting years ago at our more than 700 City-owned buildings, and now we're asking all Texans to do the same. Dallas has become an environmental leader, so it's a natural fit for us to join this statewide effort."
One of the simplest acts an individual can take - changing a light bulb - has the most far-reaching effects. If every Texan household changed just one bulb, it would be the equivalent of removing 55,000 cars from the road. It would be enough to light 200,000 homes for a year.
In spite of those cost and energy savings, CFLs account for only about 6 percent of all light bulb sales.
The mayors asked their fellow Texans to make the switch and adopt the energy-saving "state bulb" of Texas.
Other CFL benefits include:
The Mayors are collaborating with Environmental Defense and retailers to encourage Texans to give CFLs as a holiday gift, or to make the switch as a 2008 resolution.
A total of seven Texas cities are participating in the campaign: Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso and Arlington.
For more information about CFLs go to www.lightenuptx.org.
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