Thursday, August 27, is “Power IT Down Day.”
Even you can help out… just turn off your computers and monitors, printers, fax machines whatever. When you leave for the day, turn off the whole system,the monitor, printers, everything that is not essential. Imagine how much energy we’d save if we all powered off every non essential electronic devise for 8 hours in every church or at home every night.. how about just starting off small with one night!!
HP, Intel, Citrix and Microsoft, Challenging Government and Industry to Turn Off Computers, Printers and Peripherals on August 27 so why should churches be excluded. The Power IT Down Day’s goal is to reduce carbon emissions by promoting responsible energy and raise awareness about what you can to do to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
“Last year, over 2,800 government and industry employees pledged to power down their computers, printers and monitors when they left their offices for the evening, which resulted in over 37,000 kilowatt-hours saved,” said Tom Simmons, area vice president for Citrix Federal. ” If just one percent of government’s 1.8 million civilian employees turned off their processors, monitors and peripherals for only one night, the U.S. government would save approximately $23,40″ talk about a stimulus package!
Did you know that a personal computer at 10 hours a week uses 150 kilowatt hours. While a small laser printer uses 90-100 watts while printing and 5 watts when electricity connected, but not printing.
The sponsors will be making a donation of at least $20,000 to Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). WWP provides support for the nation’s severely wounded military personnel, helping them on the road to healing, both physically and mentally.
Over 3300 people have signed up on HP’s website to track how many KW we can save with over 43,000 KW and rising!
Be GREEN and help save some energy. Register now to receive an email reminder.
UPDATE As of 8:00am EST Friday Aug, 28 5,592 people have signed up to Power IT down saving over 72,000 kilowatt hours!!!
By the way, I’m writing about this special cause because I believe that we are all called to be good stewards of all God’s resources; there is no benefit to myself or CTM.