Going green step #3: Switching to CFLs

Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) are more energy efficient bulbs. A 13-watt light bulb is the equivalent of a 60-watt regular light bulb. It's still not the most efficient light bulbs of all; I believe LEDs are more so, but they're expensive. Even CFLs are more expensive but maybe the energy savings will pay off.

Only thing is that the light bulbs contain mercury, and there has been controversy about whether these kind of light bulbs will create an environment problem of a different kind. If you are thinking of switching, you should check out this website, and definitely be careful about how you dispose it in general.

Going green step #1: Renewable energy

I'm not sure if I'm the only one that's clueless about this, but I just found out from my utility website that I can switch to green power (wind, hydro, etc.) In fact, there were a bunch of companies that were doing it. The websites were more complicated than they should be, and many of them gave me error messages, unfortunately.

In the end, I switched to Sterling Planet, which does wind and hydro power. It's not immediately clear where to find it on the ConEd website, so make sure you go to this page.

Really, everyone should check out their utility companies and do their best to switch to green power that uses renewable resources if you can.