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Last fall we published the Un-Official Guide to Home Energy Conservation.

If the number of visitors to DailyHomeRenoTips.com looking for the details in that home energy conservation and money saving tips list was any indication, it was a tremendous success.

It included more than 240 suggestions on how households could reduce their consumption of non-renewable resources such as natural gas, home heating oil, etc. by reducing their use of electricity, home heating, home cooling and water heating energy; 100+ cost absolutely nothing to do and a further 75+ cost next to nothing.

Many of the suggestions came from hundreds of people across the United States as part of their entries in our Fall 2008 Home Energy Conservation Tips contest. We thought it was a pretty good list. However, a wise man once said ‘If you are not advancing, you are falling behind.’ So, with that in mind we recently held a similar contest entitled Home Energy and Water Conservation Tips contest.

We wanted to see if there were any other ideas ordinary people had which they personally or which they heard of could be used in a home to reduce it’s consumption of either non-renewable energy resources or water. By reducing a household’s consumption of these non-renewable resources it is not only being ‘green’, it is also directly and immediately reducing it’s utility bills and thus saving money.

No need to wait for and depend on government hand-outs (as nice as they can be ;)).

The submissions from this contest overwhelmed us. We received more than triple the number of submissions. And, we have more than doubled the number of home money saving and planet saving ideas in our list. Sure, some the ideas are duplicates as they can be used to reduce more than one type of energy or energy consuming activity in and around the home. We did this to meet requests for multiple sub-lists providing all of the energy, water and money saving suggestions for the home within an individual energy or water reduction category.

Today we announce the availability of the Un-Official Guide To Home Energy and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition.

In total, it contains more than 500 ideas on how you, the average Joe, can reduce your household’s consumption of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, etc., as well as of clean water, also becoming a rapidly scarce resource world-wide.

Of the 500+ suggestions:

275+ will cost you absolutely nothing to do

115+ will cost you next to nothing

400+ are sufficiently simply that anyone can start to do them.

Remember, the easiest way to save money and reduce your household’s water, electricity, home heating and water heating utility bills month after month is for you to reduce your consumption of water, electricity, home cooling, home heating and water heating resources.

Being Green = Saving Money

Below is the full list. Yes, it is so large that it can be overwhelming. You can simply create a new habit of returning to this list once a day to read, think about and take action on the next. Take it one suggestion or idea at a time. And you know, that is part of the secret to all this; simply changing your current habits. As well, on our Energy Conservation page, we have broken out this massive list into smaller lists in the following categories:

                        All                Cooking              

       Electricity               Water Heating

Space Cooling               Space Heating

Water Use - Inside              Water Use - Outside

This way you are able to go to one of the above noted sub-lists and focus on reducing your household’s consumption on a specific category. In the summer, focus on cooling your home and on the amount of water you use outside your home. In the winter, focus on the amount of energy you use to heat your home. Throughout the year you can focus as your interest and time permits on all of the other energy or water reduction categories.

Over the next several weeks and months we will be writing about each of the more than 500 suggestions in our Un-Official Guide to Home Energy and Water Conservation, so return back often to learn more about these suggestions..

Here is the Un-Official Guide to Home Energy and Water Conservation: