Conserving energy at home on JBLM By: Tammy Shoop Directorate of Public Works
October is energy month, time to start thinking about conserving energy. We live in a challenging time to save energy, especially when many of us are working from home, or going to school from home, or both! At home, just like at work, we can establish an energy monitoring program to help track and conserve energy usage. Appoint one of your children to be an energy conservation monitor, trading off each week. They can track your home energy use on a chart. Teaching children while they are young will help them (and you!) to conserve one of our most valuable commodities-energy. Where to start? Here’s a few tips: • Close your windows when the heat or air conditioning is running. • Use fans instead of air conditioners, and turn the lights off in unoccupied rooms. • Be aware of ‘Vampire Energy’: electronics such as game systems, laptops, computers, printers, and monitors can use power even when we’re not using them. Check to see if there’s a power-saving feature to set on your electronics. • Plug your home electronics into power strips, and then turn the power strips off at night, and when you’re away from home. • If you can, use the Energy Star electronics, and appliances. • Remember to check with Lewis-McChord Communities to change filters on your furnaces, and use LED light bulbs.
Need to recycle your lightbulbs? If you are a JBLM resident take them, along with your household hazardous waste, to Environmental Services, Bldg. 1210 during M-Th. 1300-1600 and Fri. 1300-1500. If you need additional information on Energy Conservation, or assistance for you work on JBLM check out our website at: https://home.army.mil/lewis-mcchord/index.php/my-Joint-Base-Lewis-Mcchord/all-services/public_works-environmental_division/energy-program. We can all do our part by conserving our energy. Remember, energy efficiency- you make it happen!
