green_daily
green_daily, a community for exchanging tips on how to make your life a little more environment-friendly, is currently "featured" or whatever they call it. Great! These things are important. Even if political decisions will in the end be what will have the greatest impact on many environmental issues, we really can't wait for those. So we should think carefully about how we live our lives and change that in key ways. And to know what those ways are, we must communicate. I joined pretty quickly when I logged into lj and saw the description of green_daily, making it my fourth lj "friend".
I even thought about posting there myself. I may do still do that at some point. As for now, I felt I could put what I had primarily wanted to talk about in a comment to a post about turning off computer monitors . This comment I shall now in the spirit of environmentalism recycle to fill some space in my journal:
"Reading this I feel I must mention something I happened to read today in a Swedish magazine, "Dagens ETC". CRT monitors use 20% less energy with a dark background. Every fourth computer in the world (45% in China, 62% in Latin America) has a CRT monitor. According to "green computer evangelist" Mark Ontkush (who blogs about things like this at ecoiron.blogspot.com ), this means (among other things) that google could reduce global electricity consumption by 750 megawatt by changing their background color. (Those of you who have CRT monitors, or wish to be a little alternative on principle, may want to use www.blackle.com , www.darkoogle.com or www.blackwebsearch.com for your web searches.) Ontkush also says that web designers in general should take by using dark colors. Apparently, if you want to find more information about energy-saving colors, the keyword to search for is "emergy-c".
As most of you who read this probably have LCD screens, another tip from the same article may be more important. Monitors are usually delivered with the brightness turned to max, so according to a Hewlett-Packard spokesperson turning it down a bit is a good idea if you want to save energy. If anyone has asked this person why HP doesn't change the "brightness on delivery", it didn't make it into the article."
Some totally unrelated information before I start doing something useful:
1. Currently used desktop picture: Nightwolf performing a babality on Kung Lao in one or other Mortal Kombat game.
2. Today is the day
teh_ace's mother (don't ask me why this text is bold, it isn't supposed to be) gets to see how we live. Wish us luck.
MVH,
MHO?