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.
T. Boone Pickens made billions and a name for himself in the oil business.
Now Pickens, 80, says he has a plan that will help solve the country's dependence on foreign oil: Wind.
His plan is to replace gasoline with natural gas. Replace natural gas-fired power plants with wind, solar, nuclear and clean coal. Basically, replace foreign oil with domestic fuel without straining those resources.
Two months ago, Pickens told News 8 he's spending $2 billion of his own money to set up 667 wind turbines in West Texas, which will be the largest wind farm in the world.
According to Pickens, At 4,000 megawatts - the equivalent combined output of four large coal-fire plants - the production of the completed Pampa facility will double the wind energy output of the United States.
"We've got more wind than anybody else in the world," he told Good Morning America. "Pampa will become the wind capital of the world"
Pickens will be live Wednesday morning on News 8 Daybreak at 6:40.
The Dallas Morning News contributed to this report
