I love unsubscribing from mailing lists. Even tech people I work with always seem surprised when I mention the environmental impact of email. It's such a small, easy, thing to do. Cleaning up my other data is much, much harder...
I had an amazing time just before the pandemic, working out my redundancy period, cleaning out my emails. I got rid of 10,000.
I try not to back up all my photos in the 'Cloud' and delete them from Google Photos on a regular basis, but save them on my devices. I have filled one 50 GB email address largely full, through blogging. I now only blog photos of 1 MB or less, havng changed my email address to start another 50 GB and moved my blog to another provider. Generally, I do all my backing up between my phone and my tablet, occasionally onto an external hard drive (but I need to use my ancient laptop for that) and frequently on to a 128 GB memory stick. To be honest, I don't trust the 'Cloud' to look after my important photos, articles I've written and so on.
I write a lot of emails, because they are cheaper and more efficient than printing out letters. When I reply, I always include the original email under my reply. I try to remember to delete all the others below that. I save all my Sent emails, and delete all the others, knowing that I have old letters from my friends safe in the Sent folder. I delete all the newsletters, charity appeals, etc, when I've read/responded to them. If you do these things routinely and often, it does help to reduce one's carbon footprint and prevent overloading one's devices' memories.
My favourite bit of the post: “And more often, simply switching off.” YES! All my best thinking is when things are switched off, often on walks. It’s so easy to be connected 24/7 and just constantly be receiving information from everywhere and everyone. Interesting post thanks! Thought provoking figures.
I love unsubscribing from mailing lists. Even tech people I work with always seem surprised when I mention the environmental impact of email. It's such a small, easy, thing to do. Cleaning up my other data is much, much harder...
I had an amazing time just before the pandemic, working out my redundancy period, cleaning out my emails. I got rid of 10,000.
I try not to back up all my photos in the 'Cloud' and delete them from Google Photos on a regular basis, but save them on my devices. I have filled one 50 GB email address largely full, through blogging. I now only blog photos of 1 MB or less, havng changed my email address to start another 50 GB and moved my blog to another provider. Generally, I do all my backing up between my phone and my tablet, occasionally onto an external hard drive (but I need to use my ancient laptop for that) and frequently on to a 128 GB memory stick. To be honest, I don't trust the 'Cloud' to look after my important photos, articles I've written and so on.
I write a lot of emails, because they are cheaper and more efficient than printing out letters. When I reply, I always include the original email under my reply. I try to remember to delete all the others below that. I save all my Sent emails, and delete all the others, knowing that I have old letters from my friends safe in the Sent folder. I delete all the newsletters, charity appeals, etc, when I've read/responded to them. If you do these things routinely and often, it does help to reduce one's carbon footprint and prevent overloading one's devices' memories.
My favourite bit of the post: “And more often, simply switching off.” YES! All my best thinking is when things are switched off, often on walks. It’s so easy to be connected 24/7 and just constantly be receiving information from everywhere and everyone. Interesting post thanks! Thought provoking figures.