SEH Green Trail #1: Home Efficient Home Traditional Cache

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lionhouse75: I am finding maintenance a difficult task these days and it's not fair to other cachers to leave these listed but in poor shape. The trail was fun while it lasted!

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Hidden : 5/31/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to the San Elijo Hills Green Trail - enjoy the “green tips” you will encounter! Green tip #1 - tightening up your home is the best investment in “green” energy you can make.

There are 18 caches in the trail. The parking spots below position you at different entry points into the trails depending upon where you wish to start.

The San Elijo Hills Green Trail is intended to be fun and educational. We all can do more to live as sustainably as possible so that we not only save money for ourselves in the short term but ensure scarce resources like water, minerals, food and energy will be available for the long term future without causing undue harm to our planet. Each cache contains a “green tip” that is fairly easy and cheap without major lifestyle changes.

The Green trail from #10 thru #17 are tips, caches and a trail suitable for kids, while the remainder are good for all but require a bit more hiking. In particular, there is very steep terrain between Green #2 and #3 so make sure you have your walking pole!

Green tip #1: Our homes are one of the biggest users of energy, and also one of the easiest places to make changes that can save you money and pay back most investments in a relatively short period of time. On average US homeowners pay about $1,900 a year on home utility bills, with much of that wasted. Simple things such as programmable thermostats, turning off computers and electronics when not in use (especially if all are plugged into a power strip), buying ENERGY STAR labeled appliances, and lowering the temperature on your hot water heater to 120 degrees F are just a few such tips.

The booklet you see in this cache (please enjoy but do not remove) is available from the US Department of Energy for free, and can be downloaded here:
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It contains many more short and long term tips. Read more, enjoy and cache on!

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