[Sustain] [SFGP-A] Next Sustainability WG meeting 3/22

[Cal Broomhead]

Thanks for the email.  

A note: yes, putting all your electric equipment on power strips and
turning them off when ever you can is a great idea to save - I've heard
estimates of 10-15% depending on how much electronic gear you have.  My
kids use the power switch as the off button on most of our equipment -
microwave, TV, stereo, etc. However, unplugging your refrigerator may not
work, or may work very well, if you are vegan and eat almost everything
perishable within a a few days.  Maybe you have already had a discussion
about this idea, then read no further... but for non-vegans especially, I
recommend a thermometer that reads as low as 35 degrees F, and check.  Food
starts to spoil at 42 or so degrees - at least that, I think, is the number
I have seen in the literature.  If the seal on your refer is leaking, or
the door is opened during the night (a roomie on a midnight raid), the temp
might climb and your lettuce may start to brown and the beans start to get
slimey - maybe just a little that you wouldn't know when you eat it, but a
few hours later may reveal evidence that it spoiled just a bit - I have had
that experience.  Put the thermometer inside, turn it off, and check the
temp in the morning.  

A safer approach might be to ask your landlord for an Energy Star
refrigerator.  The landlord is allowed to put the amortized cost onto your
rent, but the savings will far outstrip the rent increase and you will be
way ahead - and you won't have to fear those beans.

Cal Broomhead
broomhead at igc.org



> [Original Message]
> From: vicki leidner <vleidner at rcn.com>
> To: Eric Brooks <brookse32 at aim.com>
> Cc: <sustainability at sfgreens.org>
> Date: 3/24/2007 8:30:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sustain] [SFGP-A] Next Sustainability WG meeting 3/22
>
> thanks for remembering the refrigerators and unplugging or turning off 
> all silent energy burners at night.
> not sure if this is the right group to ask, but david ho, our fellow 
> green, needs support regarding the transit proposal for chinatown.  
> right now, it apparently takes over one hour to get downtown from 
> chinatown on public transport.  that sounds like an awful lot of energy 
> wasted sitting in traffic, as well as discouraging to workers needing to 
> get to work and  still have time with their families.
> thanks,
> vicki
>
> Eric Brooks wrote:
> > Vicki also wants us to discuss nighttime unplugging of refrigerators 
> > to save lots of electricity.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > done7777 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >> Yes, it's that time again, the forth Thursday, time for a meeting of 
> >> San Francisco Sustainability Working Group , 7:30 P.M. at the SF 
> >> Green Party office, 1028-A Howard St.
> >>
> >> Much to discuss: Peak Oil event, Community Choice, Nuclear 
> >> resurgence, new nuclear weapons contract at LLL, continued pillage of 
> >> fragile southwest deserts by energy interest in coal, oil, nuclear 
> >> mining and "waste disposal", still a war going on....
> >>
> >> How can we help build party resources and bring them to these and 
> >> many other projects-in-waiting looking for coordination and support?
> >>
> >> Come help it happen,
> >>
> >> Don
> >>
> >> ps
> >>
> >> I am sorry there was confusion at last month's meeting. I had not 
> >> been informed that there was another meeting scheduled at the same 
> >> time as ours, and I was also late getting there fro my job, so some 
> >> who came early apparently thought our meeting was cancelled.
> >>
> >> I am not scheduled to work, and plan to get there on time, come what 
> >> may.
> >>
> >> See you there,
> >>
> >> de
> >>
> >>
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