Your house on a power diet

This isn't a kid-tech story so much as a family-tech one. But putting our homes on a strict "power diet" to save money and help the planet can offer quite a life-lesson to our kids. SafeKids.com's Larry Magid (who is also my co-director of BlogSafety.com) put his own house through the paces and wrote about it the New York Times. He walks you through what to do to reduce the energy pigginess of household computers, whether they’re PCs or Macs, desktops or laptops. Fortunately, tech companies are planning to do their part too. “A consortium of Intel, Google, PC makers and other technology companies [last] week announced their intent to increase the PC’s overall energy efficiency to 90%,” Larry reports.