How the Web Community Can Bring Awareness about Environmental Issues

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I have been thinking for awhile that search/web communities have the ability to influence the world, yet we do not do enough for environmental awareness.

I want to hear what we can do and what you have done in this thread.

I am the technical advisor for a alternative fuels site beyondfossilfuel.com. It is all about going beyond the need for fossil fuels. This site brings such passion to me and makes me want to do more.

What Google should do:
- Make a permanent Environmental News section on Google News
- Give incentives to employees who drive flex fuel vehicles and as well as hybrids (yes I know there is not an infrastructure for Ethanol in Ca, but this would help push for one). Heck they could build a station at their complex.
- Help promote the hydrogen highway project in California (http://hydrogenhighway.ca.gov/). Build a station at their complex and give incentives for hydrogen as well.
- Use solar power to help power their massive complex. Great example, plus it saves them money in the long run.

What the search/web Community should do:
- Acknowledge the issues
- Promote the issues
- find a passion and use your search abilities to spread the word

What have the SEW members done for environmental issues? What should the search world do to help?

Oh and go see the Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth" - scary

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

[seomike]

Oh and go see the Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth" - scary

Ya, when you take the initiative and create the internet you might as well get those with the most power on that net to do something...

common is this TW or SEW... :p

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common is this TW or SEW...

what is this? Yoda? :)

[Marcia]

Oh and go see the Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth" - scary

http://www.climatecrisis.net/What's even scarier is that batch of hidden links at the bottom of the homepage.

So if that's Al Gore's site and he invented the internet, did he also invent black hat SEO?

[Robert_Charlton]

What's even scarier is that batch of hidden links at the bottom of the homepage.

Marcia - Are you talking about the ever changing RSS feed links? Not sure what else you'd be referring to. They don't have blue underlines, but they don't seem to be hidden. Otherwise, I've missed them.

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So what is everyone doing to inform the world about going beyond fossil fuels? Anyone have web sites that related to this topic or climate change?

[jimhedger]

We can all use our talents and passions to do something good though it is (in my experience) very difficult to suggest others do the same. I am pleasently surprised however when I talk to others in the search marketing community about my own environmental or social concerns. Virtually everyone I've met is intellegent, well informed and, in one way or another, taking some form of personal action.

One minor but very real way web workers are all quietly helping the planet is by working to cut the number of trees cut for pulp and paper annually. Because of the Internet, the two largest consumers of newsprint (daily newspapers and telephone directories) are increasingly lowering their print-runs and thus using far fewer trees.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/hedger/009257.html

The trade-off is extraordinary power consumption but that problem is easier to solve than the loss of remaining great forests.

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People should aslo change thier computer power settings to hybernate and/or have the monitors turn off sooner. This can save electricity in a big way. Use fluorescent bulbs as well and save money and power where possible.

Have your websites go green, by promoting green solutions on your site that relate to your industry. Promoting Green solutions also can work as a good marketing promotion for your business.

We can all do more with little effort.

Green web hosting http://www.elfon.com/ I dont use this yet, but i am thinking about it