U of T's Electric Balls

By Noah

8:30pm on Saturday March 27 is Earth Hour: a symbolic gesture of millions of people in thousands of cities across the world recognizing the need for global action at such a late hour in our climate crisis.  It represents a pledge of all participants to be more ecologically conscious, and sustainable in the coming years; an homage to the pre-industrial planet. 

Wait.  Earth HOUR?

Beware the vampires in your home

By John

You have vampires in your house.

They have two teeth and suck power from every room. Cell phone chargers, computers, TVs. Our houses are full of consumer electronics, and the conventional wisdom is that to save energy, you turn them off.

If only it were that simple.