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I came across Ed Emberley whilst looking for my favourite illustrators.
His website is amazing!
As it’s a site for kids there’s a lot of quirky little design pieces, such as how to make thumbprint drawing, or cut and paste flowers.
It might be for kids but it kept me distracted for a while!
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The UK’s carbon footprint is over 500* million tonnes of CO2 per year. Individuals account for 45% of this. Now, using iGoogle, you can measure your carbon footprint and find out practical ways to make it smaller. On a personalised page, you can track your progress, update your carbon-reducing actions and see a Google Map featuring the footprints and actions of everyone taking part.
As I have decided to look at the theme of surviving the 21st century from the perspective of saving the environment I feel that it would be a good idea if I were to find out how I was damaging the environment and to work on ways to lessen my negative impact.
My current carbon footprint is 0.59 tonnes. Using iGoogle I can now work on ways to lesson my impact.
Whats yours carbon foot print?
And what you gonna go about it?
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Cosmos Damian Asam and Egid Quirin Asam
Josef Mocker
Henry Austin
Robert Adam
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Filippo Juvarra
Gridley James Fox Bryant
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Eddie Adams
Shomei Tomatsu
Richard Billingham
Nick Ut
Larry Burrows
Antanos Sutjus
Edouard Boubat
Rene Burri
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I was watching an episode of scrubs today which reminded me that I haden’t posted on this thing in a while, and so…
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The WWF’s One Planet Living Campaign. Your guide to saving the environment.
“One Planet Living means you can be green in the 21st century without having to be alternative.”
Kevin McCloud, WWF ambassador
Well what you waiting for? Go do your bit!
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Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. It’s searches are powered by Google Custom Search.
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. A given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
Although lacking in the quirky extra features available on Google, such as Maps, Images and Videos, Blackle does make you feel like your doing your bit for the environment, even if just only for a second. The main way it does this is showing you how much energy has been saved.
Google can be said to be just about everyone’s favourite search engine. Whether you need images, groups or products Google can search it for you. But is it about time Google became more environmentally friendly?
All white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. Google gets about 200 million queries a day. Assuming each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year.
So although Blackle isn’t close to taking the place of Google in our hearts quite yet, I do feel that bigger companies like Google should be thinking about their impact on the environment, especially since they can make such a large difference just by changing a few color codes.
