Green Light Reflections

Black is the new Goog
Studies have revealed that an all-white website uses more energy than an all-black website. The energy use is small, and the difference minuscule, but if you apply it to a mega-high-traffic site, like Google, for example, the numbers add up. With this in mind, Tony Heap created Blackle in 2007, an all-black version of the Google [...]

It’s really not that hard
My first resolution during this transition to a greener life is, simply enough, to use less energy. Our truly massive energy needs (in 2005, humans apparently consumed 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 J of energy), and the way we go about creating and using that energy, have been a significant cause of environmental damage and [...]