Eco-Friendly Blogging
Monday, October 15, 2007
Happy Blog Action Day! Have you heard of it? It may be why many of your favorite blogs are environmentally-focused today. Everyone blogging about the environment on the same day is supposed to bring about increased awareness. With Al Gore's recent Nobel Peace Prize topping the news stories, it's hard to imagine that there are many out there who are still unaware of a thing called climate change.
Blogging seems environmentally responsible, saving untold amounts of paper. Online media may have a key part in avoiding the bulk waste of daily, weekly, and monthly print publications. Although, I can't help but think that it certainly isn't save on energy being used to power all the computers of people reading the blog entries. It’s hard to tell if power savings outweighs paper savings, but if you think about the power used in the process to cut trees, ship trees, turn them into paper, ship them to a printer, print on the paper, and then send it to a newsstand or to a reader, I have to think that in comparison computers are looking pretty green.
Besides reading blogs, what can we do to stop global warming? Turn off and unplug your computer at night and set it to go into sleep mode for the times during the day when you aren't using it. Lower the brightness setting on your monitor. Upgrade to an LCD screen, as it uses less power than older models. Don't print out what you can read on the computer. And if you do need to print something out, try to print on both sides of the paper. All these little changes add up and are important because we’re all in this together.
posted by Jessica Ek
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