Google Your Carbon Footprint

[kiwi]

Now i will feel guilty every time i Google something.

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by kiwi

Now i will feel guilty every time i Google something.

you do have to keep a sense of proportion , which was the point i was trying to make by calculating the wab equivalent. Yes a google search releases an ammount of CO2 but this ammount is tiny compared with thousands of other things people do everyday such as driving a car, using a washing machine, cooking food in an oven , getting a beer out of the fridge etc etc.

while i'm all for raising awareness i'm not sure worrying about things like google searches helps. We really need to focus our energy where it will make the most impact , such as walking to the shops rather than driving a car, insulating your house properly, not buying stuff you dont need, sourcing food locally etc etc. In this picture reducing the number of google searches you make is very small beer indeed.

[annmaria]

Originally Posted by StuartDH

As most of us already know, every time you google your carbon footprint goes up...but according to this research, it's probably by a lot more than you think

Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online

So Stu you want people to think twice before they google.... then you let us know that you are really Robin hood so we can carry on feeling fine about Wab... why raise the question in the first place.
Annmaria

[StuartDH]

Originally Posted by annmaria

So Stu you want people to think twice before they google.... then you let us know that you are really Robin hood so we can carry on feeling fine about Wab... why raise the question in the first place.
Annmaria

I don't know if you've noticed but Google and WAB aren't the same thing

[Jason Green]

...I'd have thought along similar lines Stu/Robin. Google has worldwide data centres and so an average search would require getting information from more than one country's centre, am I right? I've already used Google twice today... and to think I could've had up to 12 teas instead

It's something I'd never thought of before... but a simple search on WAB, IE New Posts would've been incomparable IMO.

[vera]

If Stu is Robin Hood I would like to see him in green tights , and who will he rescue
Vera

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by vera

If Stu is Robin Hood I would like to see him in green tights , and who will he rescue
Vera

I prefer him in the altogether

[annmaria]

Originally Posted by StuartDH

I don't know if you've noticed but Google and WAB aren't the same thing

Hiya No google and wab are not the same thing....but quite a few people google to get on Wab ....and then of course lots of people drive in their cars to the lovely country side to get the stunning pictures to post on wab etc.
By the way green is not your colour at all , I agree with Kayleigh buff is perfect

[Jason Green]

Girls!

Now look what that video did to them, Stu - they're obsessed!