I am creating my first new thread here, so perhaps the moderators will have to modify some details in this post. (Christophe, you are one of the instigators of the thread, so help, if necessary )
In fact, since the dawn of time (same child), I fight against windmills (no, not wind turbines, which I find aesthetic, by the way, but this is HS), so I said that I find it abnormal that we always accuse our "neighbor" of being worse than in the protection of the environment. Well, sometimes (often?) True, but it should NOT prevent each of us from making efforts to save energy, raw materials, and natural resources in general.
Indeed, as I said in another thread:
indy49 wrote:The last one heard (but it comes back often): "the day when companies turn off the lights in their offices, I will turn off my PC" (Editor's note: in the context, it is about the professional PC), therefore an actor of the he company (ie an employee) refuses to turn off his PC at night because his professional environment does not make any effort ... the cat that dies its tail ...
Certainly, companies could do better. Certainly our neighbors could use a small car instead of their 4x4, but that should not make us forget that we also, we can make an effort, and that this is not in vain!
I know it is painful to tell your family to turn off the 20W light when you leave the room, and that it seems ridiculous next to the 600W municipal projector that lights the street, but if every household in the world turns off its light, it still makes a beautiful gift to the environment!
20W saved 10 minutes / day by 1.5 billion households, that's 1 kwh saved over 825 year!
If you take your PC, your screen, your TV, your VCR, your washing machine, your wireless keyboard, which make you believe that they are at rest, but who wait patiently for you to press a key (yes, it takes energy to wait) you can multiply your savings by as much and, more importantly, your gifts to the environment.
So, of course, your neighbor's 500W hallogen consumes (instant) more than your standby TV, but no gesture is negligible. Any device can be turned off.
Note 1: This does not prevent raising awareness of your neighbor with a small anecdotal remark which, we hope, will make you think ...
Note 2: same thing for recycling: just because our companies don't recycle the tons of paper they print doesn't mean that we don't have to all make an effort on printing 2 pages per page / recto verso / recycling etc ... An example: free newspapers of the "20 minutes" type abound in town. We receive them on the "go" route to work. Take them home and put them in the appropriate trash!
A related subject opened by Christophe:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/repartitio ... t5082.html