Google's commitment to the environment

I knew Google was green or whatever, but hadn't looked into what that actually means until very recently. Here are some highlights:

1. RechargeIT: Google has been keeping track of how many MPG its fleet of hybrids and electric cars get and publishing the results. One goal is to demonstrate how plug-in hybrids work. Here's an excellent video on just that.
2. Solar Panels: the campus in Mountain View sports a 1.6 megawatt solar panel installation, apparently one of the largest corporate installations in the US (see here).

Links:
Google's green initiatives
Google.org (Google's philanthropic arm)

EDIT: This week, at the National Clean Energy Summit, Google announced its plans to finance research into EDS (Enhanced Geothermal Systems). It's touted as a reliable, consistent, global energy source (as compared to wind, which is intermittent and available in fewer places). Anyway, here's a Dot Earth post on the subject.

Powervote!

Hey all,
Hope you are all having great summers and enjoying the sunshine outdoors. If, however, you somehow find yourself indoors and by a computer (like right now! unless you're outside on a laptop), I have a suggestion.

There is a group called the Energy Action Coalition (Youth United for Clean and Just Energy) that has set up an online pledge to urge the government to create green jobs and stop relying on dirty energy. The movement is supposed to be youth driven, but at the moment the number of signatories on the pledge is, well, sad.

Being (arguably) youth, and being (ostensibly) concerned with the environment, Let's make this plegde less sad, aka more awesome, aka take like two minutes to sign an online document espousing some really cool ideas.

The pledge is here:
http://www.powervote.org/

The main webpage is here:
http://energyactioncoalition.org/


Yea! Wind energy n' stuff!!!
Ok that's all.