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Advent Calendar Andy Miah

"There are many ways to have an ethical, green, or sustainable Christmas. If there was one thing you would want people to do every day as well, what would it be?"

"There are many ways to have an ethical, green, or sustainable Christmas. If there was one thing you would want people to do every day as well, what would it be?"

Andy Miah is Reader in New Media and Bioethics at the University of the West of Scotland. His research focuses on applied ethics, technology, and culture, involving emerging technological cultures, human enhancement technologies, pervasive wireless connectivity and the modification of biological matter through nanotechnology and gene transfer. He is the author of Genetically Modified Athletes, The Medicalization of Cyberspace (with Emma Rich), and is the editor of Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty. Back to the NJfC Advent Calendar	"If you turn your house into an enormous light bulb at Christmas with wild decorations, then consider reducing the amount of time that you have them on. Definitely switch them off when you go to bed, but also consider how necessary it is for the lights to be on all day. Of course you’ve also got to use low-energy bulbs or not at all. Finally, if displaying lights is all about neighbourly unity, then perhaps send flyers to the rest, to see if you can reach an agreed period of the day when you all turn them on and organize some ‘green’ events during that period of the day. Most of us are inside our houses from 9-11pm staring at our tvs, not looking at each others’ lights. We could turn the power down by then or reduce the number of lights at least."

Andy Miah is Reader in New Media and Bioethics at the University of the West of Scotland. His research focuses on applied ethics, technology, and culture, involving emerging technological cultures, human enhancement technologies, pervasive wireless connectivity and the modification of biological matter through nanotechnology and gene transfer. He is the author of Genetically Modified Athletes, The Medicalization of Cyberspace (with Emma Rich), and is the editor of Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty.

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"If you turn your house into an enormous light bulb at Christmas with wild decorations, then consider reducing the amount of time that you have them on. Definitely switch them off when you go to bed, but also consider how necessary it is for the lights to be on all day. Of course you’ve also got to use low-energy bulbs or not at all. Finally, if displaying lights is all about neighbourly unity, then perhaps send flyers to the rest, to see if you can reach an agreed period of the day when you all turn them on and organize some ‘green’ events during that period of the day. Most of us are inside our houses from 9-11pm staring at our tvs, not looking at each others’ lights. We could turn the power down by then or reduce the number of lights at least."

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