Ethical Living

I feel a bit sad to admit this but as a Web Editor by day and director of Ethical Wood Furnishings i spend the majority of my waking hours on a computor. I must say though that I thought that all the tip tapping on the keyboard would be helping to create a postive change for local people and the environment. However I've just read that of the $250 billion spent per year on powering computers worldwide, only about 15% of that power is spent computing-the rest is wasted idling. Now even though i do turn off the laptop at night those cups of coffee I keep making and the time spent poking at the worms in the office (see the post below) are all times that my computer is sitting there waiting patiently for me to return blinking away energy. I've just downloaded a LocalCooling Application which is supposed to automatically optimize your PC's power consumption by using a more effective power save mode. Apparently I "will be able to see your savings in real-time translated to more environmental terms such as how many trees and gallons of oil you have saved." Let's see...