No. You have cut your phantom power use by by at least a third, but your overall consumption will only drop a very tiny amount. But that MATTERS because there are hundreds of millions of devices!

But don’t buy regular powerstrips if you put them on electronics, as you might as well pay the extra couple bucks for a surge protection version. This can save you from having to replace _all_ of your electronics due to a power surge–think of the waste represented by all those dead devices.

Also a good idea to contact manufacturers and retailers that you don’t need the convinces offered by phantom power–the problem should go away at it’s source.

What you get for the phantom power: Saves a few seconds on starting the device.

How lazy are you? Enough to DIE for it?

The best bet if you really want to help is to look at the things you do, and how you do them, and see if you can figure a way to do the same things with less of everything, including time–remember that one of the costs of the powerstrip solution is flipping the switch–and remembering to do it.

There are plenty of itemized lists of things you can do, but the best thing you can do is make saving resources (time, money, labor, materials AND energy) an automatic habit, so that you make a point of consciously DECIDING when you make a choice.

Bottled water (a current hot topic,) is an example. I heard a radio ad the other day with enthusiastic people cheering the fact that they could buy WATER at 24oz/$.14 or $.75 per gallon. Municipal water in my city (admittedly blessed with clean water wells,) is sold for $.12 per cubic foot (7.48 gallons per cubic foot) or a bit more than 1 1/2 Cents ($.016/gallon) or $.003 per 24 oz. So you’re not only creating plastic waste, drinking water which may be less safe than tap water, but paying over 46 times as much as you need to!

And that’s at $.14 per bottle, at the usual retail single price of around $1 for a 24 oz bottle, your paying over 333 times the cost of tap water!

Obviously, the gross profit on water is fantastic, given that I’ve seen bottled water which was bottled from the Missouri River (Kansas City Municipal Water), and several water companies have successfully negotiated deals with cities that provide them with the water basically free of charge (say, $230 for 6.2 BILLION GALLONS!)

But the insidious thing is that increasingly, large corporations control the water supply for entire cities, and they are working on controlling whole countries!

You can live for about 5 minutes without air, a couple days without water–what sort of world are we building if such a basic need is controlled by the wealthy? What’s next? Charging us for air?

Get a canteen or a permanent water bottle, fill it with your own water and save yourself lots of cash and the Earth lots of trash.