We all know about turning off our stereo or lamps when we don’t use them, but still most people don’t believe it when they hear that the internet is already producing more CO2 emissions than the worldwide airplane traffic . Trend: growing rapidly. If you’re still believing the internet saves our planet by reducing emissions, think again!
To all people wanting to live a green lifestyle: if you have to decide between using the internet or travelling unlimited around the world, what would you choose? I would definately give up the internet for that
And anyway aim to travel emissionfree…
I’m already doing a computerfree sunday for my personal wellbeing, but what about organizing such a thing as a global action? Hey, Adbusters , are you reading?
By the way, are you already doing your green thing ? This month the green thing is to turn off your gadgets and reduce your emissions. There’s
a boom of sites helping you living greener with tips and tricks, but
this one is fun and arty. Also check out their videosection, with a nice collection of green issue video’s …
A groovy quite from the Green Thing crew:
"You see, we’ve slowly let machines take over – and not even big,
scary machines like The Terminator or the Daleks. No, the ones that sit
in the corner of our rooms looking all fun and innocent and
labour-saving whilst secretly guzzling electricity like there’s no
tomorrow."