Ever considered the carbon footprint of a website? Heap Media Australia - the people behind Blackle.com, clearly have and are now encouraging more of us to do the same…
They are providing an alternate search homepage, powered by Google Custom Search, which displays its results using a black background rather than Google’s traditional white. As some monitors require less energy to display black pixels than they do for white ones, Blackle hopes to help lower the carbon footprint of our everyday Google use. The folks at Blackle calculate that the site has saved over half a million Watt hours already, since its launch in January 2007, and also done much to raise the profile of green computing.
Despite some controversy regarding the…