Hear how we can help Mother Earth protect our environment?
Help Save Mother Earth
There is a growing concern on global warming and we can play out part in helping the nation’s effort on climate change. Electricity is produced from generation plants that burn fossil fuel. The more electricity we use, the greater the fuel required to be burnt and this leads to more carbon emission. As more greenhouse gases are released, more heat will be trapped which resulting in warmer temperature. We can do our part by being more energy efficient and using electricity more wisely.
Buy energy efficient products
A computer consume about 35kWh worth of electricity a month. That is approximately $9 to monthly electricity bills and 0.03 metric tons of greenhouse gases to the environment – the same amount released from burning 11 litres of petrol.
To do:
buy energy – efficient electronics with Energy Star label. The electronics items could use 20 – 30% less power than regular devices.
Hence, it is more savings for you and kinder to the Earth.
Turn off at source
A lot of us thought that by one click of the remote control button, the devices are as good as turned off and there is no need to switch off the power source.
This is incorrect assumption! They are still sucking power from your socket.
Based on the research done in Singapore, standby power accounts can actually take up till 10% of your home electricity bills.
To do:
Switch off all electronics at source - the wall switch!
Watch what you use
How many of us are guilty of leaving the phone charger dangling from the wall socket all day (all night or all year round?!) or the printer and scanner plugged in but are not in use?
Do you know that power is being sucked up by all these devices despite there are not in use?
To do:
Track your power consumption and see how much you are really wasting.
Etrack (www.etrack.com.sg) is a little tracking device developed here and measures your total power usage and also that of individual items.
So let us all start contributing conserving the energy and be more environmental friendly!
