Too true Allie. Every bit helps. We have had a recent drive here organised by a tv station to turn off the lights in business buildings in central Sydney for one night, rather than leaving the buildings illuminated all night. It was a great success and you can imagine how much electricity would have been saved. Even if each household just turns off one light they are not using at night time, times that by the number of households, there are savings made. Simple stuff.
Economics have a lot to do with it. We can't all afford new "hybrid" cards, or to replace our light globes with the energy efficient ones (they don't fit inside a lot of light fittings anyway!). But even just buying a lower wattage light globe (within reason-we don't want eyestrain or to be bumping into things
) can make a difference.