Green Daily goes on to say that by the year 2010, 20% of every American’s electricity bill will go towards paying for this wasted energy.  Let’s see, if I could pay 20 percent less to the power company, I might be able to afford that trip to Finland next year to see those relatives I’ve never met, but number into the hundreds. And Finland is an expensive place to visit.

So by all means, turn off those computers and monitors when you leave work (unless they are University servers: Don’t touch that switch!). Turn off anything that has an LED light still glowing and isnt’ being used except for a little bit each day. Or even better, unplug the device completely if the glowing eye won’t shut off. It actually takes less energy to start them up again next morning than leaving them on all night in “Sleep Mode”.

But there is debate about how much to shut off and if it takes too long to catch up to all those updates that take place on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. But first thing, turn it on and go get a cuppa joe or catch up with your buds and before you know it, your machine will be ready to tackle the day.