Let's do our bit to conserve energy

Today when I went for my early morning walk, the climate was cool, indicating the onset of winter but there was one more thing I noticed and that was smoke covering the city skyline. It was smog and not fog. With the Climate summit happening in the Copenhagen and also there’s a batti bandh campaign happening in the city to create awareness among the masses. . It’s time we all do our bit to conserve energy else there will surely be days when we will feel the complete blackout-no electricity-no water –no lpg. It’s time we wake up.
Here are some simple steps we all can practice to do our bit for the world.
1. Turn off lights when leaving your room and check if you don’t leave any lights on while going out on a vacation. Also try and use fluorescent light bulbs if possible.
2. Use air-conditioners only when it’s absolutely necessary. Else keep open the windows of your cars to let the breeze in the evenings .Try to keep your house ventilated.
3. Please check that you don’t leave the water tap open when you are done washing your utensils, using your washing machine, try not to take showers for long hours and waste water unnecessarily.
4. Try to separate the dry and wet wastes and don’t just throw the garbage out of your balcony into your society premises.
5. While cooking try to cover the utensil with a lid while boiling as it will fasten up the process.
6. Use public transport wherever you can or give lift to your friends and neighbors’ if you are going to the same place.
7. Once you are done with charging your mobile phones please take out the adapter and switch off the light.
8. Keep the temperature of your refrigerator to the normal level.
9. When at office , keep your PC on a sleep mode if you are away from your desk for more than 15 minutes.
10. While leaving for home shut your PC as it will save a lot of carbon emissions and also encourage your colleagues to exercise the same.
11. When you watch Television just don’t put it off via remote, get up and switch off the lights .
12. If you use geysers at home try to use it for minimum amount of time as it consumes a lot of electricity.
13. If you happen to hit the gym regularly, please remember to switch off the power supply once you are done cycling and running on the treadmill.
14. When at office, switch off the lights of your washrooms and cubicles when you leave the place.
15. Also try and increase the temperature of the air conditioners at the office if you don’t need much cooling as even rising the temperature saves the electricity
16. While you do all this, please try to pass on this message to as many people you know as Together we can and we will make a difference.