Google's Earth Day Logo
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada 
on 04.22.06
Is that cool or what? Lets hope it's a sign that Google will become a big renewable energy buyer. ::Google (Yes, we just linked to Google! It's silly, but what are you gonna do about it?) ::Earth Day Network
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You know that Google now resides in the most inefficient building in Silicon Valley? It's the former SGI Amphitheatre campus and because of all the glass it has ridiculous operating expenses.
And they also sold out to the oppresive Chinese government. GO TEAM GOOGLE!
Their argument was that it was either censoring some things, or no Google at all in China. They had to choose between two bad choices.
Not sure what I would have done in their position...
How about buying green power, like Yahoo!, Google?
Last year the day before Earth Day I called Sergey Brin (found his office number somewhere somehow online believe it or not) and left him a voicemail (he must have been busy I guess he he he) reminding them to do a Google logo for Earth Day. Nada last year but this year, voila! I wonder if my voicemail had an impact. You never know eh?
I just wrote about how Google should use renewable energy to power their Gmail servers on my blog.
Check out the article!
So, what's powering the new data centers in China? Clean energy? Dirty coal-fired plants and mines with um...questionable...labor practices?
It would be good to know.
Am I mistaken in thinking that perhaps "Exotic Hardwood Flooring, i.e. BR111 (A South American company) is raping and pillaging the rainforest.
I know that $ are the driving force behind everything in the US but you should really take their add off the Earth Day page