So that was Earth Day. Now what?

So it was Earth Day on April 22nd and it seemed everywhere had some kind of “green” theme.  Most of the major TV networks turned their logos green or had eco-friendly programming for the week, and some sites dedicated their home pages to green issues, such as our client USTelecom. But as we look forward to next year you may be asking yourself “what can I do in the meantime”?

Well, a fair bit if you spend some time online.

First things first, go and join Edenbee.  This is a social network about lowering your carbon footprint and combating climate change.  You can check out my Edenbee profile and join to get tips on everything from hybrids to recycling.

Flock is my favorite browser, but they now have an eco-edition browser, which will donate 10% of its search proceeds to a green  charity of choice, as voted by the users at the end of the year.

You could also keep in touch with all things environmental at Treehugger - a site dedicated to green issues.

If you are looking at a new hosting partner in 2008 you could search out one of the many “green” hosting companies such as GoGreenHosting.

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Energy saving search...

Use Google for all your searching?  Concerned about the environment?  If the answer to both of those is yes then you need to try Blackle.

Apparently it takes more enegy to display a white screen than a black one so the people at Heap Media created Blackle which delivers the same results from Google but on a black background.  As of writing this 123,591.010 Watt hours had been saved.

They make use of the Google custom search engine (which is something that Optiem has done for certain clients) but take it in an interesting direction by tailoring it specifically to a certain set of internet users.

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