I missed a couple posts last week because Jason and I were called to Maine to help care for my parents. We also had to bring Oliver, because until the vet gives him a thumbs up we still need to monitor his health. It was a lot of work and very little sleep, and in times like that my environmental values go right out the window.

We finally got that Kill-A-Watt we’ve been thinking about, and we spent a good part of last weekend running around the house measuring the energy use of every single piece of electronic equipment we own. It was surprisingly fun. It was also a lot of numbers. (See below.) But we could draw a few conclusions from all of them:

I’m still catching up on all the stuff I didn’t read over Christmas break, so this is a lot of material. Enjoy.

January 8 is the last day for Cambridge residents to put their Christmas trees out for curbside pickup. The trees collected are chipped and used as mulch in parks around town. For more information, see the city’s announcement.

In my last post I considered the changes I made in 2009; now it’s time to think about the things I want to do in 2010. This is more brainstorming than resolution-making. With that in mind, here are some things I might write about here this year.