In honor of Earth Day, I thought I'd share some tips on conserving energy with your home office computer. These energy saving tips come from The Simple Dollar, and many of them are fairly easy to implement:

1. Use a SmartStrip for your computer and its peripherals. You plug the computer into the main "outlet" and when the computer is on, everything else on the strip gets energy. When the computer is off, everything else is as well.

2. Change the energy settings on your computer.

3. Put chargers (including your laptop charger) on a timer so that they only come on for a limited time.

4. When you replace home office equipment, do star with EnergyStar 4.0 equipment.

5. Dim your computer monitor's brightness.

Every little bit helps.

Happy Earth Day!