Hi Sugandh

Thanks for this great link-I have been spreading the word

if you haven't already seen it, the following url to a Utube video of Alex
Steffen (of
worldchanging) on sustainable design that one of my students in Srishti's Design
that
Matters forwarded to me is worth viewing for all designers, -there are several
great
examples of sustainable design -but the flowers that turn red when there are
landmines
around is a particularly beautiful example of world changing ideas that I hope
Indian
designers will begin to engage with, instead of the thousands of unsustainable
products
and services we are dumping on Indian consumers today.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/74

Uma V. Chandru
Environmental Design and Behavioral Analysis, Purdue (1989)
Srishti


--- In designindia@..., "Anirudh Natu" <anirudh.natu@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Sugandh,
> Mind boggling figures ,Quite intersting to note what a small change can
> contribute across the globe when it comes to eco friendly drive.
> Regards
> Anirudh Natu
> HOD Product Design
> Symbiosis Institute of Design
> Vimannagar
> Pune
> +91 98220 08832
>
>
> On 6/2/07, reachsuggie <reachsuggie@...> wrote:
> >
> > Blackle -- Heard of this…..?
> >
> > Blackle is nothing but a black version of google.
> >
> > "A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog
> > EcoIron
> > titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post
> > lays out
> > the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts
> > to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has
> > a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce
> > global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the
> > color
> > of its homepage to black.
> >
> > In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called
> > Blackle.com <http://blackle.com/>. According to Blackle's homepage at
> > publication time,
> > 4,408.917
> > Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure
> > up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one
> > search at a time. :: Blackle.com <http://blackle.com/>
> >
> > I recommend you all to use this as your home page or default search
> > engine.
> > Kindly pass this on to people you know and spread the word.
> > So here's your site: http://www.blackle.com/
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sugandh Goel
> >
> > Industrial Designer
> > Whirlpool Corporation
> > USA
> > +1.614.477.4698
> > www.purebysugandh.com
> >
> >
> >
>
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