The average Canadian home contains most of the six major appliances, which are: a refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, range, clothes washer, and clothes dryer. In this average home, the appliances are responsible for 23% of all home energy consumption (Howell, 2008). Natural Resource Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency shows the average amount of energy used by each [...]

House temperatures are typically controlled by a programmable thermostat or in the case of older homes, manual adjustments to the thermostat. I always remember my father nagging us to ‘turn the thermostat down’ when we were going to bed or leaving the house for the day. There are a number of programmable thermostats readily available. [...]