Green Options » conservation tips http://greenoptions.com/tag/conservation-tips Posts tagged 'conservation tips' Tue, 20 May 2008 15:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Instant Energy-Loss Diet: How to Massively Reduce Unsightly Power Consumption Overnight http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/20/the-instant-energy-loss-diet-how-to-massively-reduce-unsightly-power-consumption-overnight/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/20/the-instant-energy-loss-diet-how-to-massively-reduce-unsightly-power-consumption-overnight/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 15:45:15 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/20/the-instant-energy-loss-diet-how-to-massively-reduce-unsightly-power-consumption-overnight/ An unplugged electrical outlet. (Image credit: Chameleon at Wikimedia Commons, released into public domain.)Gas prices are sky-high and people are hurting. Is it market speculation, tight supplies or the first throes of peak oil? And, if it’s the latter, how can civilization survive?

Well, residents of the small Alaskan capital of Juneau are showing us how. Following an April 16 avalanche that severed the city’s main power lines, Juneau found itself forced to cut its energy calories big-time literally overnight. It was that, or face energy bills double or triple or many times more than the month before. The good news: society didn’t collapse.

How did residents do it? Let’s count the ways:

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