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Bim forwarded a link to this great Wikihow article about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming:
Reduce Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

It’s a great complement to my earlier (but much smaller) list of ideas for slowing global warming.

The Wikihow has so many ideas, it’s easy to pick one or two per week to get started. I think all conservation initiatives have been stifled by the perception that the problem is too big for any one individual to solve. It’s true, of course, but ironically if millions of individuals do take action, then we make significant progress. So, start small: change a light bulb. See a movie. Read the Wikihow article and forward it to friends.

We’re already following, or have followed 17 of the 44 tips listed on the page. It’s good to know there’s more we could do.

I especially like the idea of getting an “energy audit” from the local utility. PG&E used to offer such a program, I think; I remember ads offering a free CF light bulb to entice ratepayers to sign up. That program seems to have gone the way of the electric car, just in time for, erm, an unprecedented ecological disaster.

The PG&E site does offer a checklist of ideas for reducing energy usage around the home, with estimated savings rates, e.g. save 2% off your monthly bill by turning off lights when they’re not in use.