It seems like the trend in blogs today is to tell you to make the pledge to just do one thing for Earth Day.  Well, I think Earth Day should be everyday in our hearts and minds and that our pledge should be to do one thing everyday and continue that one thing for the rest of the year.  It doesn’t have to be a hard thing and it can be as simple as turning off the tap while you brush your teeth.

Today I am going to urge your to monitor your energy use daily.  It is something that I currently am not doing, but I am going to implement it.  If our local utilities and Google get it together soon enough, this will be something you can someday do for free  with Google Power Meter.  For now though there are a lot of products on the market that can help you do this and they should definitely pay for themselves in the time it will take for power meter to be up and running.

There is a new webstore out there called Energy Circle where the staff are users of the products and where if you are not satisfied with the products you buy, you can send them back.  It’s pretty cool and for Earth Day this year they have hacked an energy monitoring device so that you can have a voyeuristic view into their own homes Energy Use.  It’s pretty interesting to watch and it is what really made me want to add this to my own home. I am almost afraid to know where I am wasting energy because I like to think that I am doing a pretty good job of conserving it.  However, I know that the truth is that I can do better.

Well, have a good day this Earth Day and whatever you do, have fun doing it.