Google’s Tarsheed campaign!
I was surprised to read this story about Google running black page for a day for San Francisco users. The idea is to increase awareness among people for power high consumption. But why? Is San Francisco, home the Silicon Valley of technology at power crisis just like Kuwait is? Are they gonna run multi-million dollar campaigns asking people to go easy on power consumption, and suggest PSP instead of PS3? The dazzle was gone few moments later. Google’s efforts are part of the Lights Out San Francisco campaign that invites all San Franciscans to use one fluorescent light bulb and turn off all unnecessary lights at the night of March 29, 2008. But why? This is a call by San Francisco that should be heard by the whole world to protect the planet from the on going increasing effect of the climate crisis. An issue that’s been raised and discussed frequently those days.
I guess the guys at the ministry would be happy to add this fact to their campaign. Instead of finding solutions to their short-comings. But over there, it’s quite the opposite. They are finding a solution to a rising problem as opposed to our awkward way of enforcing less consumption to avoid the shortage of power generation caused by year and years of lack of planning and improvement.
Anyways, having the search engine giants join in this simple black background and one extra page most have had a great effect and delivered the message to most San Francisco by now. Smart move!
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Blue Dress: What solar power? :)
In US, it is being used, and Google in specific is powering large portion of it’s buildings using it as I read last time.
Kuwait? Well Kuwait is not hot enough sis for that yet. Wait till it reaches 70 or something :P
Well.. a web-page with a black background doesn’t actually save _any_ energy, but it’s something that’s really easy to do. And it might have scored some “cool” points with the Silicon Valley folks.
Tony: Sure. Did i give the impression I thought it will save energy? :). I hope not. What I mean is, a simple change from Google page delivered a strong message to many people.
Blue Dress: Use One Laptop Per Child. It uses a manual handle to generate power. Apologize to all those people needing it, I am not mocking it but what can I say about one of world’s largest oil production countries.
tarsheed .. im my opinion is …. “________” … yes thats its … its an empty thing. nothing really happened. Cuts still continued. The people involved in tarsheed got richer.
If Kuwait wanted to solve this , they could easily afford renewable technology like solar panels or wind powered Turbines.
Its like telling LAS VEGAS to cut down on electricity usage ….. Sorry bro .. i just got angry on how tarsheed was handled in kuwait. :-(
RayBoy: We all were. We all know it was a way to make money rather than avoid a tragedy. Otherwise why do they put ads till now when we are going into winter? And why would they put ads in 6 languages! Any person in Kuwait who does not speak English or Arabic is mostly hardly saving any money and he doesnt have extra to spend on luxury. So what message are you trying to deliver to this poor guy? Close the 1 lamp over your head and go to sleep?
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