Sleep Mode saves Money

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Screen savers are not saving you energy and unless you have a tired monochrome monitor, it's not helping to prevent permanent etchings on the screen either. The graphics-intensive screen savers, with your recent vacation photos and happy faces of your children are great, but it may be causing your computer to burn up twice as much energy and may bepreventing it to enter sleep mode.

Sleep Mode, or Power Management features, can cut the energy used by your computer in half saving you between $25 and $75 a year.

Additional payoffs for utilizing Sleep Mode:

Computer will not have to re-boot when you return to your daily tasks...Saving Time
Saving energy uses less fossil fuels andis good for the environment...Reduced Pollution
Reduced chance that valuable information will be displayed on your unattended PC...Increased Security

You will still be able to receive software updates such as antivirus definitions and security patches with the Power Management features activated since most software is pre-configured to apply these updates automatically and shortly after coming out of standby or hibernate.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends that your Sleep Mode be activated between 15 and 60 minutes of inactivity. The lower the setting, the more energy you'll save. You may want to consider setting your monitor to hibernate sooner and this will alert you that the computer is about to go to sleep. The "turn off hard disks" setting probably won't save you much, and can be ignored.

How do I activate Sleep Mode?

Go to the EPA's Energy Star .gov.au (Australia) web site for downloadable instructions and click consumers and enabling ENERGY STAR.

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Wayne J. R. Bowser, LEED AP is a native of So CA and president of design-build firm, WJRB Consulting & Design in Lake Arrowhead, he founded 8-1/2 years ago focusing on Conservation through Building Innovation. He has over 30 years of experience in Architecture and Civil Engineering. He’s an Associate member of the AIA Inland California Chapter, chairing the COTE. Mr. Wayne is the Organizing Chair of the San Bernardino Mountains Branch of the USGBC-IE chapter and developing a project to promote Sustainable Communities. He’s Secretary and founding member of R.I.S.E., a non-profit org., Rim Infrastructure for Student Education raising money to fund improvements for the Rim of the World Unified School District to better the educational opportunities for its students. Currently, Mr. Bowser is working with the Earth Science classes to determine the feasibility of installing wind turbines through the use of a weather station his company donated and installed. He’s currently managing the construction of the first home in San Bernardino County, CA to be accepted into the USGBC LEED for Homes pilot program; a custom home that he has designed; slated to be Platinum Rated. He is also Executive Producer and Host of his own radio program, The Green Revolution Show on the BTR network.
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