You’d think a freelance website copywriter would use less electricity, but some days I’m shocked at my carbon footprint.
So in honor of Earth Day, here are five things I’m going to do differently.
1. Say goodbye to my single-cup coffee-maker. If you know me, you know I cherish my coffee (as any good copywriter should), but I have a single-cup, drip machine that I won at our neighborhood Christmas party last year and I’ve been using it multiple times a day instead of the 12-cup model downstairs. So from now on, I’ll brew the 12 cups and just re-heat throughout the day. Small sacrifices here, people.
2. I will turn the brightness on my iMac down one step. This probably makes zero difference, and Id’ turn it down even more if I didn’t have to read and write copy on it for endless hours every day.
3. I will turn off my iBook. I use a second laptop for various things like email, Facebook and Twitter – just to keep my work from getting cluttered. I’m making a new schedule so I’m only Facebooking (yes it’s a verb now) and Twittering for a few hours every day.
4. I’ll turn my thermostat up/down two degrees. Working from home as a website copywriter means I own the thermostat. Unfortunately, that often means that Progress Energy owns ME after a month of me having my way with the temperature. So from hereon in, I wear shorts to work, drink iced tea and fan myself while I write copy.
Ok, that’s me doing my part. Now back to client work.
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