Internet Searches Cost Energy

The Internet-ization of the world does have a pretty significant impact on the environment. For one thing, google's need to keep track of the Internet so it can search it results in huge energy-sucking server farms. It's a small thing, but you can switch to carbon-neutral google searches at znout.org.

There's quite a few enviro-friendly search engines out there these days. Forestle.org and Ecocho.org use ad revenue to save the rainforest and grow trees, respectively. (They both use yahoo search engines).

Almost all of them let you download add-ons to replace the google search toolbar now standard in a lot of web browsers.