5 Easy Steps To Greener Cooking

5 Easy Steps To Greener Cooking

There are many ways to decrease your carbon footprint by changing WHAT you cook for dinner: eat less meat, use local vegetables, grow your own, etc. But there are also many ways to decrease your carbon footprint by changing HOW you cook your dinner. Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert, authors of Energy: Use Less--Save More, devote an entire section of their book to reducing energy usage in the kitchen. Here are some of their suggestions.

Five Tips for Cutting Energy Usage in the Kitchen

1. If you are cooking with a saucepan, turn down the heat when it comes to a boil. You don't need as much heat to keep a pot boiling as you do to get it to a boil, and the contents will cook just as quickly.

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