Most of you are probably aware of the Live Earth concert that was held this weekend, starting in Sydney. It got me to thinking…….what sort of imprint am I leaving in regards to my obsessive use of technology?
My PC is routinely left on 24 h a day (except when it over heats from the hammering it gets, and then I turn it off overnight to cool down), not to mention my machine at work so I can remote access. Then there is my mobile phone/pda, tablet, laptop, ipod, digital camera, PSII, Foxtel, DVD player, TV and so on.
I did some digging and found a carbon footprint calculator. The results were horrifying to say the least 
As you can see, myself living as a frugle single, I am still producing on average, over 600 Kg of carbon dioxide per month. and the worst bit of it, its not even from the car! I am a carbon Ho!
I might have start thinking how about I can reduce my total footprint all over so that I can justify my continued technolust.
- Replace more light bulbs with those new energy efficient ones (I had started, but thinking that I need to finish off the house)
- Turn off more lights. I already live without having house lit up like a xmas tree, but guess I need to try harder.
- Investigate being Earth Friendly with Synergy (Western Australian power provider). I have calculated, that to 100% offset my power usage, I can pay an extra $13.29 per bill. This money goes to green projects run by Synergy. Lets say I wanted to offset this usage by only 25% I would pay $3.32 extra per bill. Think I need to get my total bill down first.
- Use natural light more…..stop turning lights on in the house if I don’t need to!!
- I need to leave my pc on at work over night, however, I CAN turn the monitor off
- Have both computer training labs turn pc’s off every night – participants can get to class 10 minutes earlier to boot up.
- I have a solar booster, but must remember to turn it off after a few hours and not leave on for days at a time.
- Maybe turn fridge temperature down a smidge now that it’s winter
- Wear warmer clothes at home so gas heater not cranked up to max with me running around in shorts
- Must practice turning computer off every night before bed [*cries*]
- Find a place for recycling batteries and stuff. And dead mobiles while at it [top drawer is a graveyard]
- Stop watching TV while on computer. Not really paying attention to either when I do that
so in theory [in my head at least] if I can commit to actioning the above, perhaps, this will go in part someway to offsetting the carbon footprint from my technolust…….
