Environmental Diva

You found me! I’ll admire your typing skills as we ponder your environmental diva edification (e-diva-cation, get it?). Let’s start simple with the black-screen/white-text-reduced-energy phenomenon.

The idea behind this phenomenon is that black backgrounds and white text use less energy to load on a page. Hence, environmentaldiva’s black background (although black and white was too undiva-ish and I had to have pink somewhere, right?).

Moving on.

The black-background/white-text phenomenon has been blogged about quite a bit, including this entry by prissycook (a delightful read, I suspect she’s a bit of a diva). And treehugger.com (probably anti-diva), of course, covers it. However, skeptics abound, as demonstrated here with this Google post that debunks the energy-saving notion. It includes links to the sites that do the real debunking, but beware the poor grammar if you click some of the other links.

Where does this leave me with my black background and pink text? It’s not quite diva enough for me, but I’m keeping it as a visual indicator that I support energy reduction (for now, but a diva can change her mind).

Signing off,

Go, go, Diva, go!