I was looking at both the Times and the BBC today, it seems that the UK is the worst country for energy waste in Europe.

Now I looked through a few of the things they mention, and noted with dismay that our household is guilty of doing one or two of them, mostly leaving chargers plugged in and leaving lights on and devices in standby. I can see I’m going to have to make some effort in this area, it makes me wonder how often do we use energy wasting devices when there could be a manual alternative?

For example, rather than use the PC to keep my notes and personal diary, I use paper and pen. I also find this much more satisfying, which is strange given my technophile status. Where possible, I walk instead of firing up the car, again, it feels better and gets me some exercise.

I think we could do with applying a little Wu Wei to our use of resources, try to do as much with less. When you consider the enviromental impact of a PDA vs a notebook & paper diary, you start to wonder. It’s an interesting question, how many of our mod cons & gadgets could we honestly do without before it really affected us?