Simple ways to make you home more green , and save you monet as well
Adding:  CFLs in high-use areas is a great start. Cocking in leaks that your windows or doors have; to lower your heating, and cooling bill.
Subtracting: Energy efficient cooling means cooling your house while minimizing air conditioner use. It doesn’t get simpler than that. To save money on air conditioning, the best trick is to find other ways to stay cool.
Cutting back: Saving electricity is easy if you know where you’re wasting it. The key is to measure and understand your usage, and cut wherever you see waste. You don’t have to live in the dark to shave dollars off your electricity bill.
Checking:  Just because you have a newer furnace doesn’t mean you’re getting energy efficient home heating out of it. Even a 90%-efficient furnace can waste energy – if it heats your house hotter than it needs to
Hot water heaters sure look different outside North America. North Americans heat huge tanks of water, and keep them hot all the time, so that we can have as much hot water as we want, whenever we want it (until two loads of laundry, or a deep-soak bath, uses it all up).