A Beautiful Way To Conserve Energy (NAPSA)—Going green doesn’t have to mean giving up the comforts of home. What You Can Do Here are hints that mayhelp: e Paint the walls of your home a light color. Dark colors absorb light and require more energy to achieve the sameeffect. Light colors conserve energy while helping your home seem brighter and more cheerful. Plant windbreaks, trees and shrubsaround your house to beautify and protect your home. e Check yourfilters regularly during periods of high use. Replacing dirty filters increases efficiency, promotes better health and saves money,too. * Utilize a programmable thermostat to manage energy consumption and reduce your energy costs. A programmable thermostat can makea big difference in controlling your heating and cooling energy costs. It will provide a comfortable indoorclimate while you are home and reduce wasted energy when you are asleep, at work or away on vacation. One such thermostat can beautify your home as well. That’s because it workslike a digital picture frame to show your own photos. It even comes with customizable faceplates, wallpaper backgrounds and screen savers, such as slide showsandclocks. This multifunctional, simpleto-use, programmable touchscreen thermostat has more than a dozen preset themes, including nature and holiday themes. Each theme has separate photos, displaying daytime and nighttime scenes, including the sun for day and the moon for night. Whether you choose from the available themes or use your own photos, Anattractive, programmable thermostat can be a cool way to save money on energy. your thermostat becomes a small piece of wall art that’s engaging to use. It’s compatible with virtually every type of heating and air-conditioning system andis only about half the price of competitive pro- grammable thermostats that don’t have photo themes. Up to 100 photos can rotate as a slide show in screen saver mode, and personal photos may also be selected as the background wallpaperfor the thermostat. With four programmable peri- ods per day, this richly featured thermostat also comes with easyto-use software to adjust preferences, alerts, daylight savings time, and vacation, security and overall system settings. An “At-aGlance” screen clearly shows the heating and cooling status, time, and room temperature. Outside temperature can be displayed, too. You can even get reminder alerts right on the thermostat when it’s time to change thefilter or call for service. Called ColorTouch, it’s available from Venstar, a leader in thermostats. Learn More For more information, visit www.venstar.com/Thermostats or call (818) 812-9930.
