Many electronic devices aren’t ever really turned ‘off’ so to speak. A small trickle of power is necessary for them to display the time or jump to life on command. This ‘standby power’ is minute taken alone, but when everybody owns the same kind of devices, it begins to add up quickly to a great use of energy for no real purpose.
March 21, 2006
February 8, 2006
American Night
Inhabitat.com has a fascinating entry on dimming the American night. The entry includes some very beautiful and almost other-worldly photographs by David Allee.