Black is the New Green
Sustainability is everywhere these days - but what about on the web?
It won’t come as a shock to any thinking person - but on a monitor dark colours tend to use less energy than light ones - so light backgrounds on websites ect. are actually causing us to use more energy than we need to. Energy Star show the wattage used for several colours. The energy use difference is much lower on LCD monitors, but darker is still more efficient, and that’s why Nightsoil has gone dark.
Of course the web is a network and The Sustainable Web is not just about the end-users energy …[more]