{"id":2604,"date":"2022-10-26T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:13:41","slug":"day-13-measures-for-the-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/programs\/energy-efficiency\/day-13-measures-for-the-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Measures for the Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spent most of our waking hours at home in the living room and can save energy and money on our energy bills.  Even when we are not using the living-room we can save energy.  An average home in the US uses twice as much energy as it did in 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No-cost EE tips<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. In the fall\/winter turn down the thermostat while you are sleeping and away from your homes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In In the spring\/summer turn up the thermostat while sleeping or away.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. In the fall\/winter use thermal isolation drapes closed at night and open during the day to let the sun in. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Go with a recommendation to wear a sweater.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Turn of electronics and lights when not in use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Move obstacles away from vents, ducts and registers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Low-cost EE tips<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Replace bulbs with LEDs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Buy and use a programmable thermostat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Use a power strip for your electronic equipment that saves power when turned off.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Buy or lease and use an energy star EE cable set box.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. An 50\u201d Energy Star rated TV could run less than $17 per year to run See https:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/products\/most_efficient<\/a> for a listing of the most efficient models.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We spent most of our waking hours at home in the living room and can save energy and money on our energy bills.  Even when we are not using the living-room we can save energy.  An average home in the US uses twice as much energy as it did in 1950. No-cost EE tips Low-cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-in-your-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}