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6 ways to have a greener Super Bowl

February 7th, 2010

This is a day when many guys across America focus on football and friends. Whatever you are doing, I think it is possible to make the Super Bowl a little more environmentally friendly. Keep these tips and mind and let me know any of your own!

Stay home instead of driving around and using fuel
If you do go elsewhere, bring your own reusable glass if they only have plastic
During half-time pick up all of the recyclables and put them in the appropriate bins
If you are getting pizza, use one that you already have in the freezer instead of delivery. Better yet, make one from scratch!
Forego any Super Bowl branded signs, etc that are toss away schwag or not recyclable.
Turn off the television during half time.

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Tags: television

Wednesday is now a greener No Electronics Wednesday

January 11th, 2010

This week is done and I am very happy that we are finished with this task. The television can be turned back on. I completely understand why Ashley assigned us this green challenge, but I am happy to have it back. We have saved some energy this week, Ashley and I spent more time together and I also learned just how dependent we are on our digital devices. A long term change did come out of this and we decided that Wednesday is not No Electronics Wednesday. No television or computer on Wednesday evenings.

I think this will be fairly easy for us to stick with. Since we have DVR and we also go to the gym on Wednesdays, I think it will be a good day to go without our electronics. Hopefully, this will be better training for when we have children. When we have talked about kids in the past, we both have agreed that we would want to change our television habits to better emulate healthy lifestyle. Now, we just need to follow through.

In the meantime, I am going to watch the season premier of Chuck tonight one day late. My 56 inches of entertainment has come back into our lives, but hopefully with slightly better habits and more control. Let me know your television (or lack of TV) story in the comments area below.

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Posted in Week 12 No Television

Tags: electronics television

Missing season premier of Chuck and saving the world

January 10th, 2010

This week is coming close to the end and I am thankful it is ending. I am glad that Ashley assigned me this green task of not watching TV since it not only has saved some energy, but it is also pushing me to reexamine the time I spend in front of the television and computer. I enjoy television, but I think that the biggest thing I could learn from this week’s experience is that I need to become more efficient at watching TV and my computer time. I need to make more time for doing productive things NOT involving a monitor.

So, tonight I am going to miss the season premier of Chuck and it sort of ticks me off. On the other hand, I do have it recording on the DVR and will be able to watch it in about 3/4^th of the time. I talked to Ashley about possibly setting up ‘no TV nights’ and we have not set anything up yet, but will likely try and do this.

I think I need to also set aside time away from my computer. This blog, my job, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter all take a good chunk of time. I know that I am not going to quit any of these things, but I think I can probably make my time with these things more efficient.

How many of you spend much of your time with your TV/computer off? Tell me your stories about how you best manage all of the information chaos in your life.