Universally Designed

Looking to save energy while you work? Blackle.com may do just that. It takes the worlds most popular search engine, Google, and gives it a black background that uses less energy to display than bright white or other color alternatives. The paragraph below is directly from their website:

“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 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.”

All Blackle asks is that you do your part in saving energy. They recommend you set your homepage to Blackle.com instead of Google (after all, your searches will still retrieve the same results) and add “Blackle.com – Saving energy one search at a time” to your email signature.