Today's magical treat was a lot harder than it sounds. Actually, it was also really frustrating. And, by the end, I felt pretty badly about myself. Hooray for the Environment!
I unplugged all unnecessary electronics, appliances and chargers.
The reason why this was so difficult was because it's really hard to put your finger on every single thing plugged in in every single room. We are living in an electronic world, afterall.
The fact is that our outlet-dependent appliances and electronics account for a large percentage of our individual energy output. I'm not going to pretend to know what that percentage is. I'm not a fan of remembering numbers.
Chargers for phones, laptops, batteries, et cetera, suck idiotic amounts of power even when they aren't in use. VCRs are another example of evil-doing. I considered things like this alarm clock in our guest room that gets used like, I don't know, 5 times a year?
Waaaaaasteful.
So go unplug some stuff, dammit.
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