THE GREEN DEBATE!

I thought of writing something in line with the green efforts that a lot of organisations, institutions & communities have started up! Suddenly, it seems there is a spurt of activity in this space. Though the initiatives are many, the theme is one - They want everyone to be "Consciously Green", so as to save the planet before it might be late to save ourselves!

A Few of the Green Initiatives:

BLACKLE.COM
Check out : http://www.blackle.com/about

There has been a lot of heated debate on the rationale and the research behind - BLACKLE.com - the initiative by Heap Media which is based on the research by Roberson et al, 2002 - "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."

Blacke : Toby Heap Of Heap Media

While this post is being written, blackle claims to have saved 1,134,338.804 Watt hours till date!!!

This tells us to be green in whatever small ways possible. However, a few technology reviewers have tested the site on LCD monitors and have found that it requires more power!!!

More Energy tips from Blackle : http://www.blackle.com/tips/

NDTV's GREENATHON!

I guess NDTV 24*7 did a great job by telecasting 24hours of live programming under its GREENATHON campaign which also was a fund raiser for the TERI'S "LIGHT A BILLION LIVES" campaign. But, it became more of a publicity stunt for the Rich&Famous as a lot of bollywood biggies and other political & corporate honchos declaring that they are ready to sponsor a no. of villages for their solar laterns for the TERI's campaign (One solar lantern costs around 3000Rs!). But who cares?... At the end of the day, it would be fine if these lanterns can bring light to dispel darkeness & poverty!

But, there is one man who has taken a lot of initiatives for the planet's cause!
Well, this harvard educated guy might have lost it to Mr.Bush in the US presidential Elections in 2000! He won 48.4% of the total votes compared to Bush's 47.9%! And that was another reason why he wasn't the president of US!!! Strange world of elections & politics!!!


So, Who am I talking about??? It's the Ex-Vice President of US - Mr.AL GORE! He would have made more sense to the job than Bush and that could be anyone's or er..... should I say everyone's guess!

This guy has made an impact! Not that of some small proportion but rather with a big bang with his Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth which won an Academy award!

He has been relentless in his campaign against global warming! However, the fun-da is that he is one of directors on the board of APPLE Inc which often comes under immense scrutiny by Greenpeace which rates all the electronic products according to their level of toxicity!

Whatever it may be! He has been there to show us some really shocking statistics that are the result of Nonchalant living all these years... Isn't it?!

Though there has been a mixed review for such initiatives, I feel all is fine even if it goes on to create a blip of a hope for future! A future with better/cleaner technlogies, Zero waste or atleast one with no leaking taps!!!