When you want to cut down on your electricity consumption in your home, the easiest approach is to just turn stuff off when you’re not using it.
But when you turn it off, is it really off??? Chances are, it’s not. Plasma TVs, VCRs, DVD players, game consoles, … tons of your appliances and elctronics are [...]

I thought I was doing the world a great service by foregoing a car and subsequently cutting down on 5000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
But transportation isn’t the only way we all contribute to air pollution and creation of greenhouse gases.  Electricity consumption is a big contributor, not least because over half of America’s [...]