Green As You Can Be

posted by jax1215 on May 23

I have been having a personal debate as to leaving my computer on all day or shutting it down unless I’m using it. My first concern was the amount of time I waste on it. I LOVE playing games. I can spend hours just playing Spider. My other vice is reading blogs. I can travel all over the world sitting in my study. People are leading wonderful lives..everywhere. But my number one concern is the amount of energy I waste every day.

“The average computer left on all day uses nearly 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, producing more than a ton of carbon emissions. So turn off your computer anytime you’re not on it, and eliminate the screen saver function, which uses more energy than the sleep mode.”

I found the above quote this morning while traveling around green sites.  Now my mind has been made up. It’s off during the day. I’ll only use it in the AM to check for emails, surf a little and check out my friends on Facebook. I’ll keep it off until evening when I can go out into cyberspace and see how the rest of the world is doing. Now if I could just break my TV habit.

I’ll let you know how this goes !!!

Jax