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Sometimes, the most important thing your computer counts is sheep.

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Putting your computer’s monitor into its low-power “sleep” mode could conserve enough energy to power 6,005 U.S. homes for one month, and save Pitt as much as $500,000 annually. By using monitor power management techniques, you are contributing the equivalent of planting 1,000 to 6,000 square feet of trees or preventing one to four weeks’ worth of car emissions.

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