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Cover your pots while cooking:
Doing so can save a lot of the energy needed for preparing the dish. Even better are pressure cookers and steamers: they can save around 70%!

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Replace your old single-glazed windows with double-glazing:
This requires a bit of upfront investment, but will halve the energy lost through windows and pay off in the long term. If you go for the best the market has to offer (wooden-framed double-glazed units with low-emission glass and filled with argon gas), you can even save more than 70% of the energy lost.

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Don't let heat escape from your house over a long period:
When airing your house, open the windows for only a few minutes. If you leave a small opening all day long, the energy needed to keep it warm inside during six cold months would result in almost 1 ton of CO2 emissions.

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Defrost old fridges and freezers regularly:
Even better is to replace them with newer models, which all have automatic defrost cycles and are generally up to two times more energy-efficient than their predecessors.

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Move your fridge and freezer:
Placing them next to the cooker or boiler consumes much more energy than if they were standing on their own. For example, if you put them in a hot cellar room where the room temperature is 30-35ºC, energy use is almost double and causes an extra 160kg of CO2 emissions for fridges per year and 320kg for freezers.

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Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket:
You’ll save 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple action. You can save another 550 pounds per year by setting the thermostat no higher than 50°C.

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Do not leave appliances on standby:
Use the "on/off" function on the machine itself. A TV set that's switched on for minimum hours a day and in standby mode during the remaining hours uses about maximum of its energy in standby mode.

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Clean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner:
Cleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

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Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer:
Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.

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Install a programmable thermostat:
Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.

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Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light(cfl) bulb:
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.