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Some highlights from our MCall blog:

• We tossed in a smattering of green tech
• Had a great time at the LVBO meeting
• Introduced folks to some of the places on the green inter-tubes, and
• Droned on and on about the benefits of locally sold, fair trade coffee

RRR, matey!

(OK, lame, but entertaining way to link to our latest Morning Call blog post on reduce, reuse and recycling).

Just posted another entry over on our Morning Call blog space. Cool/sad RAZR statistic from it:

The [numbers show] that the phone+charger eats about 2 watts when charging and about 1 watt when charged but still plugged-in. The charger itself eats 0 watts when just plugged in and no phone connected. The Watts up? PRO meter is pretty sensitive, so this charger causes no measurable phantom load (which is a good thing!). However, leaving the phone "charging" all night, every night for a year will consume about 3.3 kWh (kilowatt-hours - you get charged by the kilowatt on your monthly bill). As of July of 2006, there were 50 million RAZRs out there in the wild, and definitely more than that now. That's 165,000,000 kWh costing $11,550,000.00 (at $0.07 cents/kWh -- if anyone from PPL is reading this and can help me decipher what the net cost-per-kWh is for our area from your tariff PDFs it would be most appreciated). According to a popular carbon calculator, that equates to 123,750 tons of CO2 or 371,250 trees.

Hopefully the full article is interesting and informative.