One small change can make a difference, if enough people take the time to do it. This is the concept around Blackle, the energy saving search engine, powered by Google custom search. Created by Heap Media, the goal of the site is to have enough people switch from a white to black search page, taking small steps to save energy in our everyday lives.
As Blackle states, "In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages. We <Heap Media> believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy."
This is a great concept, and allows everyone to make a small change that can have a great effect. I have converted this to my home page and do not find any issues with readability.
To make Blackle your home page visit - http://www.blackle.com/set-home-page/.
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