I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank you and attaboy to our electricity provider, Reliant Energy. I received an email titled “Reliant e-sense summary” and opened it to find a very useful electricity usage chart. The chart instantly shows us the last seven days of electricity usage in Kilo Watt Hours [...]

Insulated glazing, also know as double glazing to the layman, oh where to begin? Well let’s start with the definition shall we? The Double Glazing term relates from double to tripled paned glass windows separated by an air or other gas filled space to reduce heat transfer. Pretty groovy, huh? Insulated Glass Units (IGUs) are [...]

We recently found an excellent online source for LED light bulbs, SuperBrightLEDs.com. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri and their internet bulb ordering site has a huge variety of LED lights ranging from home, auto, RV, security and accent lighting all the way through to industrial LED light products! We had been searching [...]

The PowerSupersite has just published a very insightful infographic showing power consumption facts for the USA. The statistics show that over the course of a year the US actually uses more electricity than Japan or China topping the list at 4.40 Trillion kwh, however Canadians use more electricity per day than Americans, the stats show [...]

10 ways to make your home a much greener place to be. Practical tips and advice you can all follow easily.

June has been very hot so far here in Texas, triple digit days and very warm nights, so it seemed only fitting that we track the energy usage of an item that helps keep our food and drinks cool, the refrigerator… We plugged in our trusty P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless unit and started watching the numbers [...]

For the month of June we decided to monitor how much electricity is used by our television. We used the awesome P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless to track how much electricity was being consumed by our TV over a three day period. A typical day of television watching in our household consists of a couple of hours [...]

Computers can be a big energy waster and energy drain on the system but they needn’t be.There are many things you can do — both before purchase, while in use, and after they’ve given up their respective plastic and electronic “ghosts”! Americans produce more than 5 billion, yes billion, pounds of computer waste annually. According [...]

The rush for renewable energy has had a big impact on the home hot water boiler industry but it has started to adapt quite quickly to the modern day advances in house heating systems. Over the last 40 years the gas boiler central heating systems have become the major heating systems for both the American [...]

You may have tried LED light bulbs in your home and found them to be too expensive or perhaps you thought the white light was too cold or harsh? The Our Everyday Earth Green Blog is proud to announce that there is now a relatively inexpensive and extremely warm white LED light bulb available. We [...]

There is growing pressure for every person to pull up their sleeves and do our bit to help the environment. However, when you start trying to do your bit you quickly realize that pretty much every activity you do can be made a little more ‘green’. However, there is simply no way you can address [...]

So often people tend to forget that living green is more than simply recycling and attempting to produce less waste; an essential part in the green living trend is taking steps to make your home more efficient as well. This process is essential as most of the biggest energy wasters in your home are the [...]

We have been using the Berkeley Institute of the Environment carbon footprint calculator to track our average ecological impact and our progress is shown below. When we started tracking our carbon footprint back in March 2009 we assessed that our household produced a shocking 68 tons of CO2 per year, this is equivalent to 158 [...]

Did you know that a whopping 46 percent of home energy use is actually energy loss! In other words, there is no productive energy use at all! Here are 10 simple ways of reversing this energy lose, by changing some old habit and starting some new ones! Check out this list, these are some very [...]

After several years of debating this issue with my wife, I finally searched the web for answers. Not that I need to prove my side, because once again, I think I am right, but to prove my point, I needed some supporting facts. So, here goes: Are ceiling fans worth buying and running and do [...]

I’m on a quest to stop “Phantom Power Loss” in our home and become a smart electric saver! You may well ask, what is “Phantom Power Loss”, so here goes… Every household appliance uses electricity even when not in use, the biggest consumers are items like televisions and satellite or cable boxes. Electricity consumed by [...]