Sustainable Milton
Reduce Energy Use
20 Simple Steps to Save Energy and Fight Global Warming, from the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition.
  Groups

Serve coffee and beverages in paper cups. When finished, rinse, flatten the cups, then put into paper recycle. Use paper plates. When finished, scrape clean then put into paper recycle. Avoid Styrofoam.
  Businesses and Organizations

Recycle all office paper. Use less paper by reusing single-sided, non-sensitive printed pages for drafts. Cartons and wastepaper are recyclable. If you currently use an outside vendor for all trash, consider recycling your paper and cardboard which will earn revenue for the Town of Milton. Please contact us for further information.
Japan's
energy consumption as a percentage of gross domestic product is the lowest in the world. Learn  how.

Bank on-line
and other
energy-
saving tips
from the
Sierra Club.
Individuals & Families

Quick Summary of 1-day household energy usage adjustments from "The Energy Diet" by Andrew Portman, NYT, Oct. 5, 2006. Read the entire article here.
The average house creates double the greenhouse-gas emissions of the average car. Audit your home’s energy use -- and see how you can reduce it here.



Green Home info from the Sierra Club:
Bill McKibben describes building an "environmentalist's dream home" in "Green From the Ground Up,"
Monica Woelfel writes about how home remodelers can reduce their ecological footprint (with exclusive tips),
Dashka Slater profiles innovative architect Michelle Kaufmann, who believes that green homes should be as easy to order as a pair of sneakers.
Setting your monitor or laptop to go into sleep mode during even short breaks can cut energy use by 70%.
CFL Bulbs:
More CFL Facts
from the Sierra Club:
    If every U.S. household replaced
its most commonly used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents, we'd
  cut our electricity use for lighting in
      half  - and lower our annual CO2
          emissions  by about 62.5
million tons.           
3 Milton families cut 7,000 lbs of CO2, without big expenditures!!

They saved $!
You can too!

More info here.