Shutting Down the Electronics

"The Green Year" has a few good tips in it this week regarding electronics. First, remember to always turn your computer off at the end of the day. When not using your computer during the day, go to the "sleep" mode.

Since I missed Monday, I'll give two tips today! The one in "The Green Year" for today is great. I've long wondered what to do with all of these old cell phones (and yes, we still have our very first huge bag phone from the late 1980s). If the phone isn't that old, consider donating it to a women's shelter, who gives the phones to their residents for emergency use. Or, if it is too old to be used again, look up a recycling center in your area by going to www.electronicsrecycling.net

Jodi Helmer quotes the EPA in her book, writing there are 130 million unused cellphone sitting around the U.S. Recycling those would save enough energy to power 194,000 households for one year.