young_fishin_neep
29-Mar-08, 08:07
i got the shock of my life when i opend my browser this morning, my home page is google, an the screan was black, i thought my laptop was broken :eek:
then i read i bit an clicked a link to find out why
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Google users in the United Kingdom will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.co.uk (http://www.google.co.uk/) homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour (http://www.earthhour.org/). As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html). However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/individuals/index.html).
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
Given our company's commitment to environmental awareness and energy efficiency (http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/), we strongly support the Earth Hour campaign, and have darkened our homepage today to help spread awareness of what we hope will be a highly successful global event.
How green can you be? The UK's carbon footprint is over 500 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Individuals account for 45% of this. Calculate your carbon footprint (http://www.google.co.uk/carbonfootprint/index.html) and find out how you can reduce it by turning off unused lights and other carbon-reducing actions.
Why did Google choose this specific organization?
We believe in doing our part to help combat climate change, and found the Earth Hour initiative to be a timely, important event. Further, we think the "lights out" idea's individual-centered nature is something that millions of people worldwide can participate in. In short, we really like it. So we did something about it.
I dont usualy pay much attention to much global warming stuff, i do turn everything off on a night time but thats mainly due to saving electric, but i think its quite a cool idea, probably won't be participating though as i will most likely be working or sleeping before work. but i think its quite good that google are showing thier suport and its informing more people about it.
kazzii xxxx
then i read i bit an clicked a link to find out why
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Google users in the United Kingdom will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.co.uk (http://www.google.co.uk/) homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour (http://www.earthhour.org/). As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html). However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/individuals/index.html).
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
Given our company's commitment to environmental awareness and energy efficiency (http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/), we strongly support the Earth Hour campaign, and have darkened our homepage today to help spread awareness of what we hope will be a highly successful global event.
How green can you be? The UK's carbon footprint is over 500 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Individuals account for 45% of this. Calculate your carbon footprint (http://www.google.co.uk/carbonfootprint/index.html) and find out how you can reduce it by turning off unused lights and other carbon-reducing actions.
Why did Google choose this specific organization?
We believe in doing our part to help combat climate change, and found the Earth Hour initiative to be a timely, important event. Further, we think the "lights out" idea's individual-centered nature is something that millions of people worldwide can participate in. In short, we really like it. So we did something about it.
I dont usualy pay much attention to much global warming stuff, i do turn everything off on a night time but thats mainly due to saving electric, but i think its quite a cool idea, probably won't be participating though as i will most likely be working or sleeping before work. but i think its quite good that google are showing thier suport and its informing more people about it.
kazzii xxxx