last highlighted date: 2023-11-21
Highlights
- 97% of households in the UK own an electric tea kettle and 65% of them admit to overfilling their kettles. The extra energy that is wasted on a daily basis for boiling unused water is enough to light all the streetlights in London for a night.
- macOS should automatically downscale content of documents that are having a single paragraph on the last page.
- Tags: sustainable product
- Note: good idea Chrome doesn’t even have a scale-down option. It does have a “Minimize margins” option, but Google took a product decision to hide it behind two additional clicks in the “More Settings” section. Bad for google
- Direct flights are much less harmful to the environment. A sustainability factor could be used as a selling point for direct (more expensive) flights, so Kayak can get a bigger cut.
- Note: flight booking app
- Promote public transportation over car by showing it as the first tab in the right context. For me taking driving to the office with a car takes almost the same time as going by bus. I never drive a car and Google knows it. I don’t even have a driver licence, but Google still decides to promote private cars over other transportation options for me.