Everytime you log online,
you're using energy.

But do you even notice? For most people, it has become second nature -- arrive home, flick on the lights, turn on the television and boot up the web. Are you even using the net half the time you're connected?

The answer is probably no.

But you're still using energy, which means something somewhere is burning fossil fuels to provide that energy. It would be fabulous to say the power is coming from windmills or from solar sources, but the statistics show that only BLANK percent of our energy is derived from clean, renewable sources.

That doesn't even take into account the amount of natural resources, non-renewable resources, that it took to manufacture and deliver your web-ready device to your eager hands.

 

Those fossil fuels?

Burning them releases greenhouse gases into the air. Yep, the same gases that have turned Venus into an unliveable hothouse are the same gases we're spewing by the ton every minute into the atmosphere.

No wonder the scientists are worried! The temperatures are rising, the glaciers and icebergs are melting, the permafrost is thawing, and the oceans are going to eventually start to rise.

But technology is an integral part of who were are as a society today. Getting rid of it is not the answer. What is?

 

Awareness.

We need to learn to be aware of what amounts of energy we are using, and whether we are wasting. We need to refocus on conservation.

And moderation. Everything is good in moderation.

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