Black Out Daily Kos for Earth Hour - with DIY instructions.

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 3:17 AM PDT

2008/03/29 · 03:17

The idea of boycotting DKOS (and all other sites) for Earth Hour, or even shutting it down completely, is currently being discussed.

I would like to suggest a less radical approach: Do the same as Google Denmark is currently doing - change the color scheme to gray on black. If the site is back to normal when you visit it, you can look at Blackle instead

This change in colors would serve two purposes:

It reminds every visitor of Earth Hour

It reduces the power consumption of the visitors screen.

Note: I do not know the reduction in power consumption - nor am I even sure it is measurable. Any one who knows, please feel free to comment

UPDATE: It seems this may not reduce consumption at all for LCD's. Since the effect is probably neglible anyway, please ignore point 2 above.

Implementation details and DIY instructions for your own site below the fold.

Lesser Dane

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Tuesday June 12, 2007 · 6:45 AM PDT

2007/06/12 · 06:45

In this diary, I will try to outline an idea for how to reduce CO2 emissions which I call "Personal Carbon Quotas".

The basic idea behind PCQ's is quite simple: A country sets a maximum for how much CO2 may be emitted in a year. The total "allowed emission" is divided equally among all citizens. No-one is allowed to burn fossil fuels without owning a corresponding quota. Since companies do not get any quotas, they have to buy quotas from citizens. Since only a fixed amount of quotas are available, only the fixed amount of CO2 will be emitted.

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Wednesday May 23, 2007 · 2:40 AM PDT

2007/05/23 · 02:40

It seems there is a movement building to organize an "Iraq War Moratorium". The idea apparently originated Meteor Blades has a front page diary, with a poll asking for the best date to hold it.

In MB's post, I made a suggestion to organize weekly events to build up support for this day.

Follow me past the jump for an elaboration on these ideas ...

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Black Out Daily Kos for Earth Hour - with DIY instructions.

Personal Carbon Quotas

Weekly meet-ups as built-up to an Iraq War Moratorium