green energy
Recession Survival:
Thrifty Green Gadgets Reduce Energy Bills
and Carbon Footprint
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mid the current economic recession and flourishing
energy conservation movement, home and business
owners and lessees alike are looking to cut costs and
conserve electricity however they can. “While clipping
coupons and being more conscientious of electricity usage
can help, one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to
save is through technology,” notes Paul Holstein, COO of
CableOrganizer.com – an online storefront offering a wide
selection of energy management solutions.
“Many ’green gadgets’ are very inexpensive, and can help
easily manage and reduce electricity consumption - and the
utility bills and greenhouse gas emissions related thereto.”
Below are a few representative devices
CableOrganizer.com
offers to help consumers to go green, without having to spend
a lot of green:
Intermatic Electronic Seven-Day Timer
Forget about living with a single timer setting, or paying
for electricity that’s wasted when you leave lights on all day
so you can return to a lit house. Intermatic’s Electronic
Seven-Day Timer can be used either indoors or outdoors, and
has several programming options: either set it for 24 hours, or SmartStrip Power Saving Surge Protectors
customize it for an entire week. In addition to utility bill sav- Known as “vampire electronics” because of they way they
ings, the Intermatic Seven-Day Timer can also enhance your suck power even when they’re not in use, many peripheral
home’s security. With just the touch of a button, you can set devices in your home and office are bleeding your budget dry
the timer to Random mode, which varies lighting patterns to as well. Luckily, products like the SmartStrip Power Saving
give your home a more believable “lived in” look. ($31.41) Surge Protector are putting an end to the waste. When the
SmartStrip detects that a main device (for example, the plas-
Leviton Decora® Occupancy Sensor Switch ma screen in a home theater setup, or a computer) has been
Nothing runs up the electricity bills like forgetting to turn turned off, it automatically cuts power to that device’s periph-
the lights off. But now you can still save money even when erals. As a result, the average home can save as much as 260
you forget, thanks to the Decora® Occupancy Sensor light watts of electricity per hour, or trim 113 Kilowatts per month
switch from Leviton. Simply put, this affordable sensor from its utility bill. ($30.44)
switch cuts down on the amount of power wasted by auto-
matically switching off the lights when it no longer detects Kill A Watt™ Electricity Power Meter
movement in the room. In addition to giving you the option The Kill A Watt T electricity power monitor is an eco-
to manually switch on and off at any time, this motion-sensor nomical and simple tool to assess the efficiency of your elec-
also lets you control your own savings by allowing you to tric appliances. Just plug any 115 Volt AC (maximum 15
choose how long the lights will stay on for: 30 seconds, 5 Amp) electric appliance into the Kill A Watt T meter and the
minutes, 15 minutes, or 30 minutes. ($30.75) large LCD display shows the power consumption of the
appliance by killowatt-hours. The Kill A Watt T power mon-
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