Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
So… 70 google searches == boiling a kettle?
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Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
So… 70 google searches == boiling a kettle?
Making The Web A Better Place: Guidelines For Green Web Design – Smashing Magazine
“viewing a simple web page generates about 20 milligrams of CO2 per second” … “According to the American research firm Gartner, the carbon footprint of information and communications technology exceeded that of the global aviation industry for the first time in 2007.”
“Jones was astonished to find that the vast corporate structures against which he and many other progressives had been campaigning so hard — the WTO, the World Bank, and so on — were treated, by the people who run them, as mere tools to be used or tossed aside at will. The elite see themselves personally as the holders of power, and institutions as their means and modes of power. The activists outside the police barricades, by contrast, see the institutions themselves as the problem. The scene from “The Wizard of Oz” comes forcefully to mind; Dorothy and her friends try to figure out some way to deal with the terrifying apparition of Oz, the Great and Powerful, but never notice the little man behind the curtain.”