3 posts tagged “sustainable”
Came across this while surfing the web the other day - Make Me Sustainable.
MakeMeSustainable
are trying to solve something I have been trying to get my head around
as well: to bridge the gap between our ideas about helping the
environment and what we actually do about it.
Their website describes it best:
MakeMeSustainable
was created to fill the void between how we feel about our environment
and what we do about it. We bring you the tools to take action. Our
Carbon and Energy Portfolio Manager enables you to visualize and
contextualize your individual impact. MMS' sustainable solutions
empower you to act upon your knowledge. We can help you to become a
more environmentally conscious and efficient individual or business.
MMS empowers you to spread the word and encourage friends, family, and co-workers to join the collective effort.
MMS
wants to create a community of people concerned with their
environmental footprint in order to network, spread the word and
effectively mitigate their individual and communal impact.
To be
sustainable is to consciously and systematically strive to improve our
environmental, economic and financial future for an individual, family
and community.
Individually each of us is a drop in the bucket.
Together we make a splash. This is the importance of infusing the ideas
of sustainability into a community movement.
Blackle, which is basically Google Search in a different looking window, saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002
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.
Whatever you want to make of it, I think it is still worth a mention, as they say "God is in the details." Thanks to Christina for pointing it out!
The Netherlands, one of the more progressive nations on this planet and
the true owner of the term "flower power" bring us yet another step
closer to where we might as well have been a while ago.
Rotterdam,
after Amsterdam the second largest city in Holland, hosts us the world's first sustainable/renewable energy dance club called SUSTAINABLE DANCE CLUB. It's been made possible by Enviu and architecture firm Doell and opened up in October of 2006.
Dancers
basically create the electricity through a revolutionary floor system
that converts the kinetic energy from people dancing and jumping on the
floor into usable electricity!
Make sure to check out the video below, which explains how the technology works.
