Greening Your Computer Use

My Yoga Online has posted a new Green Living article by Michael Bloch, Greening Your Computer Use. Michael reviews some simple and practical ways for computers to reduce their carbon foot print as well as save money.







Computing has changed the world-a great example is the Internet. It is hard to imagine either not existing. While computer usage can actually lessen our environmental footprint, for example, being able to work from home or control of farm irrigation and many other tasks, the energy consumption involved with casual computing and gaming generally is massive.



There's not just the actual computer usage related electricity consumption, there's also all the millions of tons of plastic and metal used to create the billions of computers in their various forms now on this planet.



We can all do our bit in lessening our impact and the following are tips for more earth friendly computing, some of which will also save you cash!



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