I noticed when I was taking my Carbon Footprint it spiked when I said that I leave my electronics charging over long periods of time sometimes overnight. Although it should not have been surprising I had forgotten about it and it really opened my eyes to how much the little things can build up. I think by changing small things like that we could reduce our carbon footprints by some amount of energy that would build over time to a large change.

This is very true. The largest source of carbon emissions for almost every single point on the world map is the home. Part of this is just do to the fact that homes require a lot of power to maintain, but a good portion is caused by little things such as leaving electronics plugged in when they are not in use, and leaving lights on in rooms that you are no currently in. These types of things over long periods of time can have a serious affect on our carbon emissions, especially if everyone is doing it. I try to turn off the lights in a room every time I am not in it, and when it is day time I try to light the room with sunlight through windows. Another thing that is really good to reduce the carbon emissions of your home is switching to more energy reducing light-bulbs, like LED light-bulbs. An even better way to reduce the carbon emissions of your home is to install solar panels because they drastically reduce the amount of energy being used inside the home. Alth ough the initial cost of solar panels is very expensive, after a certain period of time you will start to actually save money because you no longer have to pay a monthly electric bill.

I noticed this too! Small things like charging your phone or electronic for long periods of time, can really build up. Phone's are basically a necessity for today's world, so maybe getting the best phone that helps the environment is the best choice. Having a phone that lasts a long time before you have to charge it again might be the best decision.

An easy tip to reduce the amount of energy used in your household is to unplug appliances and electronics that aren't being used because when your charger is simply sitting there plugged in, it's wasting energy. Many phones are becoming more energy efficient and when you don't need to charge your phone, don't charge it.

I agree, we can help reduce the amount of energy we use in are daily lives. We can turn lights off when were not in a room, turn the water off when were brushing are teeth, and unplug electronics to help stop wasting energy. These small changes and help the plant so much. When I did my carbon footprint and I said how many electronics I use and leave plug in it went so high and I didn't realize how much energy that it take and I will do better to reduce the amount of energy I use.

And don't forget that when you leave your phone charged in for the whole night you are also ruining you battery life. See phones  batteries are made to charge to maximum and more, so the poor phone will try to charge itself the whole night even if it's already 100% charged. It's different for electric or hybrid cars dough, most of their batteries are made to be unable to charge to it's full extent.

This is true. Lithium ion batteries, when overcharged over a longer period of time, with weaken the battery life,  reducing the milliamp hours to that of a flip phone. This is actually rather common, meaning more people buy new phones, which overcharge/“become outdated”, etc. It’s quite the vicious cycle.