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• BCAG's Energy Saving Tips for your Kitchen [PDF]
• BCAG's Energy Saving Tips for your Home Office [PDF]
• BCAG's Energy Saving Tips for your Lighting [PDF]

   

• Frugal Living for Households [PDF]

  Outline of a BCAG presentation given March 27, 2011, including tips suggested by attendees

• Lindsay's List

  A conservation-focused blog offering daily tips on how we can adjust to the post-peak oil world

• saveONenergy THE HOME

  Take advantage of a wide range of opportunities that will help you understand and manage the amount of energy you use throughout your entire home. You can reduce your household's energy consumption while also helping the environment. And by participating, you'll be working with thousands of households across the province.

• The Climate-Friendly Gardener [PDF]

  This guidebook from the Union of Concerned Scientists explains the science linking soil, plants, and climate change; provides practical tips for a more climate-friendly garden, and links to resources that will help you adapt these tips to your own needs.

• Join a CSA in Leeds-Grenville

  Community Supported Agriculture farmers receive a set fee (from you - the consumer) prior to the start of the growing season. In return, you receive shares (produce) in the farm's bounty and you also share the risks due to weather and other factors beyond the control of the farmer.

• Appliance Calculator

  This calculator can help you approximate the amount of electricity you use each month, and estimate your costs. Use this calculator as a guide to find ways to use less electricity.

• Brockville Reuses

  Residential Materials Exchange exclusively serving Brockville. Divert good used items and materials away from the landfill site, and put them to good reuse.

• Orange Drop: MHSW

  Did you know there’s a recycling program designed especially for the household products that require special care when they’ve reached the end of their useful lives? These items are called Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste.

• ecoENERGY Audits and Retrofit Grants

  Retrofit grants are available to homeowners, small businesses and organizations to have energy audits performed and energy efficiency retrofits done. Find a local NRC-certified energy advisor using the online form.

• Love Food Hate Waste

  The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.

• BCAG Rain barrels

  Use a BCAG-produced rain barrel to collect rain water for later use in your yard. This reduces demand on city water services, eases the load on city sewers during heavy downpours, and provides a reliable water supply during extended periods of drought.

• Watt meters

  Analyze your home energy use with a watt meter provided by BCAG and the Brockville Public Library ... and take informed conservation measures.

• Plastic bag recycling

  Drop off your unneeded plastic bags at these locations in Brockville.

• The Resilient Family

  Escape the rat race, think for yourself, practise self reliance and pursue your passions.

• Enhanced TAPS Program

  The Enhanced TAPS program is available by application to qualifying low-income families and individuals. The program provides you with energy saving tools including installation of a programmable thermostat, installation of foam pipe insulation and energy efficient showerheads plus aerators for kitchen and bathroom faucets.

• Brockville Farmers Market

  Reduce your carbon footprint by buying locally grown and produced goods, eating in season, and enjoying locally produced and preserved foods.

• Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve | Local Flavours

  Buying local foods replaces the need for long-distance shipping which reduces the production of damaging greenhouse gases. It also helps to preserve our rural agricultural landscape.

• Ontario | Add It Up

  This online experience will help you discover how many simple, positive choices you have right where you live.

• Centre for Energy | Residential

  Appliances and Lighting -- Heating and Cooling

• Enbridge | Energy Efficiency Tips

  There are many ways to save energy in your home every day. Review these tips to start saving energy and money.

• HydroOne Home PowerSaver

  Is your home energy efficient? Which appliances use the most energy? How much can you save? Get answers by analyzing your home’s energy use.

• GlobalCool

  Use and lose less energy by doing any or many of these easy things.

• Minimise Your Carbon Footprint

  A list of simple things you can do immediately, which will start to reduce your contribution to global warming.

• The Low-Carbon Diet

  36 positive suggestions on how we can change our lives, reduce carbon emissions and help save the planet - all in the form of three simple and enticing menus, calculated not in calories but 'carbs'

• Reducing Personal Emissions: Electricity, Hot Water, Space Heating

  45% of our personal emissions is due to residential emissions, 54% of which is attributable to space heating, 25% to hot water heating, and 21% to electricity.

• Earth Day Footprint Quiz

  This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.

• Global Warming – Kids Page

  Some basic information on what global warming means, and how you can help to stop the process.

• Climate Change – Kids Site

  Presented by the US Environmental Protection Agency

• Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

  48 youth organizations from across Canada [have come] together to form the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition - to stand united for a sane climate future. We are a non-partisan coalition demanding immediate and meaningful action on climate change by governmental and private sector leaders.

• Saving Electricity

  When you plug something into the wall, it seems clean enough -- you don't see or smell any pollution, like you do with your car. But the pollution is there -- it just happens at the power plant.

• Find an Energy-Saving Light Bulb

  Energy-saving light bulbs now come in all shapes and sizes. Choose as many or as few criteria as you like and we'll recommend bulbs that match.

• The international ENERGY STAR symbol

  A simple way for consumers to identify products that are among the most energy-efficient on the market

• The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming: Challenges and Solutions

  As gardeners, we are both guardians and stewards of our environment, and it is important for us to realize that there are many simple and thoughtful ways that we can work with nature to solve the problem. Through the following actions, we can make an enormous difference in our own backyards, in our communities, and in the way our government deals with this critical issue.

• Use Green Power

  Use power generated from renewable energy sources, through suppliers such as Bullfrog Power.

• BuildIt Solar: The Renewable Energy site for Do-It-Yourselfers

  More than 500 renewable energy and conservation projects you can build.

• BackyardChickens.com

  Established in 1999, BackyardChickens has become the #1 destination for the information you need to raise, keep, and appreciate chickens.

• EcoLogo - Certified Green Products - Consumer Products

  All of the "green" products listed here have been evaluated and audited to ensure compliance with EcoLogo criteria. These criteria reflect environmental leadership in the market for consumer goods, and encourage reduced environmental impacts.

• celsias

  Celsias is becoming the world's leading action-based climate change website that enables individuals, organizations and companies to take real action against global warming. On Celsias, you can learn, commit and do actions that will reduce your carbon footprint.

• Green Living Magazine

  Online magazine published by Environmental Defense

• Energy Savings Tips to Help you $ave

  Everyone likes to save money, especially when you can reduce your energy use and help the environment at the same time.

• MapAWatt: Learn, Compare, Reduce

  Insight, advice, and education to help readers make the best decisions on how they can use less energy and water in their daily lives

Last modified 2011/11/14