Small steps make big difference!

http://www.treehugger.com/

http://blackle.com/about/

In January, a blogger named Mark Ontkush wrote in his blog EcoIron that an all-black Google home page would save 750 megawatt-hours of electricity a year. What does that mean? We looked it up.

Turns out 750 megawatt-hours can power for an entire year:

-- 77 North American homes

-- 150 European homes

-- 268 African homes

-- 536 Asian or South American homes

-- 3,750 homes in Afghanistan

-- 6,000 televisions

-- 800 microwaves

Ontkush pointed out that an all-white Web page requires about 74 watts to display, where a black page requires only 59 watts.

In response, an Australian company called Heap Media created a Google-powered site called blackle.com. The site keeps a running total of the number of watts saved to date. At press time, that number was nearly 135 million watt-hours.

There's something oddly attractive about the Blackle homepage. We find it calming - both in look and the fact that we're saving energy.

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/questionnaires.aspx

Eh. Mali koraci stvaraju male razlike. A veliki koraci - velike razlike. Kolko god neki svesni i odgovorni ljudi zakidali sebi po neki džul udobnosti, ukupna potrošnja energije ostaje i ostaće manje više tu negde, sve dok bahati ostaju bahati i dok im neko ne stane nogom za vrat.

Zato sam žestoko skeptičan prema bilo kojoj akciji takvog tipa ako iza nje ne stoji kakva država ili već neka slična institucija koja raspolaže efikasnim aparatom prinude. I političkom voljom da ga upotrebi, naravno.

Mada, priznajem, i ja držim crni desktop već godinama. I gasim svetlo i hiberniram računar za sobom, i forsiram lako ambalažiranu hranu (to nije bukvalno skroz ista priča, ali suština je ista) i putujem biciklom i autostopom, što je verovatno i najkonkretnija stavka. Ali sve to nekako doživljavam kao stvar ličnog dostojanstva i ne mislim da ću postići bogznašta. I neću, dok god su beogradske ulice zakrčene četvorotočkašima i dok god su USA država snova za većinu ljudi na planeti.

Ustvari, Ivana, ipak hvala na postu, lepo je videti ga.