Outdoors & Garden

submitted on behalf of Mrs Kinney as does not have web access or know how to use it.

I am using hot water bottles instead of the electric blanket, and in the morning, when there is a frost, and the car windows are iced up I use the luke warm water from the bottles to de ice the window

Try solar heating for your pool instead of normal heating as it is energy efficient because the energy comes from the sun!

1. Return all sport to daylight hours, cutting down on use of huge lights. 2. Businesses cut back heating and lights, walking into council offices and banks is like walking into an oven. 3.

New Zealand has got so many streams, which may be used to generate power. Remember the old water wheel used to mill grain or maize?

Having purchase a spa pool a few years ago. I found that the information given on running costs was not quite accurate and I was receiving rather larger power bills than I would like.

Build your own wind turbine, store the energy in a battery pack and use it to power your lights.

Each street light in a town near you has a solar panel on top and batteries.when battery is fully charged it could put power back into the grid.And then at night when charge of batteries gets low it c

save energy on the weekends and even week nights by inviting friends or just having your own family have barbecues for dinner.

When my lawns need mowing, I wait for a nice day (there's still plenty of those even in winter!) and mow them by hand with my hand mower instead of using my electric mower.