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In addition to preventing pollution and saving you a lot of cash, energy efficiency can be downright interesting. Take a look at some books and videos/movies to help you make your home more energy efficient and spark your interest in the environment. Feel free to suggest other books and videos for this page.
CommonCraft: New Light
Bulbs in Plain English
The state of Illinois has this video series
giving easy tips on how to cut
energy bills.
A Washington, D.C., natural gas utility
worked with the Alliance to Save Energy
to produce this video about energy
efficiency.
Go Green: Home Energy Management is a
short video, produced by the "Discovery
Channel," outlining things you can do
around the house to cut energy bills.
The March of the
Penguins, about the struggles of emperor
penguins in Antarctica, won the 2005
Academy Award for best documentary. It’s a
great way to get perspective about our
fragile world and why practicing energy
efficiency is so important. It’s also just a
good movie, filled
with heartbreak, suspense, and inspiration.
The Energy Savers booklet, put out by the U.S. Government, is filled with simple tips on how to cut costs by making your home more energy efficient.
Low Carbon Diet: A 30-Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, by David Gershon, is a one-month guide to significantly save money while reducing the carbon dioxide pollution you produce.
The Energy Efficiency Manual, by Donald R. Wulfinghoff, is a volumnious guide (1,536 pages) designed to be helpful to engineers, architects, and plant managers as well as small-business owners and people who just want tips for their home. It begins: "Improving energy efficiency may be the most profitable thing that you can do in the short term."
Sustainable Living for Dummies, by Michael Grosvenor, is an interesting addition to the popular "for dummies" series of books, offering fun and easy ways to help the environment and save money.
There are a lot of similar books giving simple ways to cut energy bills and prevent pollution, including:
by Greg Horn
by Sam Davidson and Stephen Mosely
by Crissy Trask
by Diane Gow McDilda
by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold. Published in 1948, long before the advent of the compact fluorescent bulbs we know today, nonetheless this book's "beauty and vigor and bite" is an inspirational reminder of why we should use the bulbs and take other energy-efficiency steps to prevent pollution.