Going Green Tip

Unplug your chargers:

Most cell-phone chargers continue to draw electricity even when the phone isn't plugged into it. If your cell-phone charger averages five watts per hour and is plugged in all the time, that means a total of more than 40 kilowatt-hours every year, or about 93 pounds of CO2.

The same applies to your other electronic equipment: laptop, iPod, digital camera, BlackBerry, etc. Unplug all your chargers when they are not in use.

Did you know:

- A kilowatt (KW) is 1,000 watts and a kilowatt hour refers to the use of a device or a set of devices that use 1,000 watts for an hour.

- The average residential cost of a kilowatt-hour in the U.S. is 9.86 cents (in 2006), but varies depending on what region of the U.S. you live in.



Souce: Cessnan Bulletin
vol. 23 Issue 28
July 2008