As a businessman mostly in the IT industry, it is worthwhile to note that cooling and powering office space is responsible for over 40% of the carbon emissions in the US, and it uses up 70% of the electricity usage.  This is becoming an issue because more powerful processors eat up more electricity and in turn also makes it more expensive as every watt your computer has, you probably will need another watt to cool it.

Computers in American offices burn over $1 billion worth of electricity annually — and that does not even take into account additional air conditioning to cool it.

Two ways you can purportedly save our environment.

-Set computers to power down automatically after 15 minutes of idle time.

-Another big wate allegedly comes from toilets.  Toilet flushing is the single biggest water hog in office buildings using up to 4.8 billion gallons a day.  It may be worthwhile to retrofit old toilets that uses 8 gallons per flush to new toilets that use only 1.6 gallons per flush. 

To be passionate on certain things, isn’t that what gives meaning to life?  If he spends his lifetime collecting books and reading it, would you say that he was seldom miserable in finding companionship in books?

ScienceDaily: Man’s love of reading costs him his home

A bookstore owner’s obsession with the written word has cost him his Pennsylvania home after local officials deemed his book collection a fire hazard.

Authorities in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., condemned John Puchniak’s apartment this year when a routine inspection raised concern the bookstore owner’s collection of nearly 3,000 texts could cause a fire, The (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader reported Wednesday.

Puchniak now resides in a local hotel, while attempting to limit the stacks upon stacks of books that decorate his condemned apartment.

I just saw this in passing and thought it would be good humor to share this.  This is more of how a boss perceives itself, and of course, when the boss strikes on an air of importance, it can always be humorous.  But note!  We are after all, humans, and with all humor, this strikes a chord of relevance.

Rule no. 1.  The Boss is always right!

Rule no. 2.  If the Boss is wrong, see Rule no. 1

Rule no. 3.  The boss does not sleep.  He rests.

Rule no. 4.  The boss is never late.  He is just delayed elsehwere.

Rule no. 5.  The Boss never leaves his work; his attention is just required elsewhere.

Rule no. 6.  The Boss does not read the paper in the office.  He ’studies’.