When your old lights and appliances need to be replaced, ask your parents to buy energy-efficient models. The ENERGY STAR^® identifies super-efficient products that let you save energy and help the environment. For example:

• ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) use one-third the energy of a standard incandescent bulb and last up to 10 times longer. Over its lifetime, each ENERGY STAR light bulb can save your family an average of $30 or more in energy costs and prevent the release of 450 pounds of greenhouse gases from a power plant.
• ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerator/freezers use about half the energy used by those built before 1993. Replacing a refrigerator bought in 1990 with a new ENERGY STAR qualified model would save enough energy to light the average household for nearly four months!
• New ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washers clean your clothes with half the energy of older machines. They use only about half as much water, too. Saving energy and water helps keep the environment healthy.

The ENERGY STAR appears on refrigerator/freezers, clothes washers, dishwashers, air conditioners, ceiling fans, furnaces, cordless phones, televisions, VCRs, computers, fax machines, monitors, printers, light bulbs and light fixtures, and many other products. Learn more at www.energystar.gov.

EnergyGuide Labels
Yellow and black EnergyGuide labels show the cost to run each appliance per year. The lower the dollar figure on an EnergyGuide label, the more efficient the appliance — and the less it costs to run.