Googlers Share Earth Day Pledges on Global Mashup Map

via Googlers Share Earth Day Pledges on Global Mashup Map

What are you doing this Tuesday for Earth Day?

If you're still looking for ideas to combat climate change or are hoping to inspire others, share ideas with Googlers around the world with an Earth Day-specific mashup map.

The nifty map shows more than 1,800 ideas to better the environment, submitted from users around the globe, from Washington, D.C. to Iceland. Earth Day pledges range from the impressively ambitious "My family and I are going to spend the day helping to clean up our neighborhood in Brooklyn and participate in activities in Prospect Park ... also we are unplugging everything, even cable TV" to the simple, yet effective "Eat less meat." Earth Day revelers can also submit YouTube videos of their Earth Day proclamations.

Google has also included a handy list of ways to go green with Google, including donating to environmental non-profits using Google Checkout, planning a car-free commute and using the Energy Saver gadget for Google Desktop.

black out for earth hour

during our family dinner on march 28, 2008 we observed a black out for earth hour. it was right in the middle of dinner (about 20 something people), and no one really complained that much. but, as we looked out of our window we saw that a lot of neighbors didn't join in on the event.

i was surfing around and found the official site: earth hour, maybe we should start telling people already. haha. take a look at the news section there are a lot of interesting posts. also read earth hour every day

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-Shirt Magic



Water-based ink is better for the environment and also has a better aesthetic appeal, unless you enjoy that sticky artificial, restricting, cracking plastisol ink that heavily coats your t-shirt. -more

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