what ive done to reduce power consumption at home..

[meangreen]

We are leasing a house and we love our leased home.

Fortunately our house is brick and pretty well insulated. We live in texas and in the summer our house temp stays pretty consistant... We had lots of shade trees, but unfortunately several months ago, we had a very rare snow storm - nine inches of snow! it destroyed the huge oak tree in our front yard thus a lot of our summer shade has now gone, but we still have sevaral shade trees left.

But I have:
- replaced all our light bulbs with compact flouro's,
-just installed a programmable thermostat for our AC/heater,
-we dont turn the AC temp below 74 degrees ever, set even higher when we are usually gone
-I have been cleaning off the AC radiator thing outside to keep off the dust collection
-we have an LCD tv now
-all our PC monitors are LCD now as well
-my PC has a Plus80 cert. power supply and a effecient dual core AMD cpu
-i got a kilowatts device to check my consumption on various appliances
-i go around the house and turn things off that my life leaves on
-i planted my tomatoes in a raised bed this year instead of planter pots, i pretty much dont have to water them anymore and they are thriving(deeper roots)

that all i can think of at the moment.