Small efforts can improve your energy consumption, by taking action you will protect the environment and lower your energy bills. Your action can take place by bringing change to your house or by purchasing appliances and goods that have a low energy consumption.

To have a better idea of what you need to do you can improve your home energy consumption by running the home energy yardstick and the home energy advisor.

A very good information when buying appliances is to look at their Energy Star rating.

Renewable energy are less damaging for the environment fossil fuel energy,which release pollutants in the air (arsenic, mercury, NOx..) and greenhouse gases. You can decide to buy energy exclusively coming from renewable energy, by doing this you will encourage energy companies to switch from traditional energy source to greener ones.

The companies from which you can buy energy made from renewable energy are listed at Green Energy Certificates. The table is reproduced below.

Source: The Green Power Network