Home Building Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green
House-off switch
May 31st, 2007 by Ryan JohnstonIt is a switch that allows a user to turn off all non-essential electronic items in their home from a central switch. Push the button to turn your house on when you get home; push it again to turn it off when you leave. Aiming to make the ‘green’ way the most convenient way, the ‘House-off’ Switch was part of a larger project to encourage ‘green’ action among the environmentally disinfranchised.
The project searches for a kind of ‘environmental everyday’ where people take up ‘green’ behaviours because they want to rather than because they think they should. An everyday where ‘being green’ doesn’t imply sacrifice.
A more expensive version of the same concept has a central switch that also allows the inhabitant to leave some items plugged into ‘safe’ sockets around the house which can be left on for security or peace of mind when everything else has been turned off at the central switch.
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Tagged as: environmentalism, energy, power, green, eco-friendly
May 31st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
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August 10th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Here is a similar solution. But it is a wiresless 900mHz system that also controls the HVAC and sets it to an economy mode. So it shuts off all non esential lights and wall plugs. A split receptacle is avalable and all lights may be turned on for safety if you turn it off when you go to bed. http://www.greenswitch.tv
The website will be ready to take orders in about 2 weeks.
It is low cost and easy to install in any home.