My partner LOVES Christmas time. The lights, the markets, finding the biggest tree (then carrying that son-of-a-gun home), the city, the jumpers, the mugs, the themed socks… Actually, to put it into perspective, when moving to the Netherlands, 2 of our 10 boxes were solely for Christmas decorations.
This year I’ve started looking at this practice through a more environmentally-conscious lens. So naturally, I’ve decided to look at hardware energy consumption tracking.
How much does this simple (but oh-so-wonderful) tradition contribute to climate change? With the scale factor of millions of homes, I became a bit obsessed with this thought, so like I’ve been tending to do recently, I started to research and experiment a bit.