It’s Easy Being Green
Is your studio contributing to global warming and other environmental problems? Unfortunately, the answer is almost certainly yes. Between the electrical energy you use to run your gear, the climate-control system in your studio (that is, your heater and your air conditioner), and the disposable media and old gear you throw out, you are, statistically speaking, adding to the problem.
That problem, of course, is the pollution of the environment from greenhouse gases and other harmful elements, the depletion of nonrenewable energy sources, and the taxing of the earth’s already-bulging capacity to contain the waste we have created. And members of the developed Western world (obviously, personal-studio recordists are just a minuscule fraction of that group) are among the worst culprits. The root of the problem is consumption: the oil used to run vehicles; the coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy used to heat and power homes and businesses; and the energy used in the manufacture and distribution of goods.
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