In my efforts to become greener while traveling, I decided to unplug whatever I don’t use in my hotel room (at least when I’m not there). In the bathroom, I unplugged the hairdryer and coffeemaker, as well as my own curling iron when not in use, which is practically 99% of the time. When I returned to my room last night, I noticed the desk lamp was unplugged, which I didn’t unplug myself. Either the hotel maids caught on to my attempts to save energy, or something else. I’d like to think the former, but either way, it was good to see. From one of my favorite sources, The Green Book :
“Unplug your power: Ten percent of the electricity used in your home is burned by communication devices and appliances when they are turned off! If every U.S. household just unplugged their computers and cell phone chargers when they are not being used, collectively we’d save over $100 million – enough to provide free health care to every low-income child under the age of five in the state of California.”
The little things count.