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Program the thermostat at a lower temperature when you're not home, avoid idling your car, and use Energy Star products and appliances. These are just some of the ways the decisions you make about energy consumption can significantly reduce our energy demand, helping to safeguard natural resources, habitat, and health. From taking public transportation and driving fuel-efficient cars to making sure we turn out unnecessary lights, energy conservation is an important way in which each of us can make an environmental difference.
How will this help?
One of the key ways that conserving energy helps birds, other wildlife, and our overall environment is by reducing the pollution caused by emissions from automobiles and other energy-burning processes. This not only benefits our own neighborhoods and families, it helps to reduce the impact our individual lifestyles have on global climates and wildlife. And conservation practices can help eliminate the need to exploit wilderness areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
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Read how one family decreased its energy consumption and how you can do the same:
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