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I send frequent green tips to all staff every week or two. I try to  have 
them apply on our campus as well as being something people can do at  home.  This 
was last week's tip:
 
Do you have a Vampire lurking in your department?  Vampire refers to  the 
electric power consumed by electronic appliances in a stand by mode. It  includes 
 power adapters for a cell phones, radios or battery chargers.  They continue 
to waste power even when nothings plugged into them.  It's  said 17-25% of 
household electricity use is due to Vampire Power - overall the  cost of this 
'lost' power is estimated to be 4 Billion dollars... I don't want  to think 
about how much CO2 the production of that much electricity puts  out!
 
We had staff unplugging or switching chargers to power strips that could  
easily be turned off (no one was crawling under their desk to unplug their radio  
or cell phone charger when they took them off the charger prior to this). A 
lot  of tools that were always plugged in such as the battery charger for 
drills are  now only being plugged in when needed. I personally unplugged 6 of them 
in one  building. Maintenance had stuff plugged in that they will not need 
until spring. 
 
Another popular tip (based on return emails) were how to double side and  
change margins on printers. There were a lot of people on staff who had no  idea 
it was even possible.
 
Vicki Scheunemann
Conservation Officer
St Paul's Como Zoo & Conservatory




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