Get the dotcoms to own up to their energy waste.
While there are a lot of things that
we, as individuals, can do to conserve energy,
the biggest wasters are the companies that employ us.
Many businesses are doing things to conserve electricity -- such as certain grocery stores which have shut off lights in freezer and cooler sections (obviously, not Safeway). Why not other types of businesses?
Just look around you as you zip up and down 101 -- for instance, do we REALLY need the neon lights on the stupid Yahoo! billboard before the 6th or 4th St offramp in San Francisco? Let's not even talk about how much energy is wasted by the stupid double-sided Coca Cola billboard. While we're at it, let's talk about floodlights on billboards at night.
Or perhaps the ridiculous habit many companies have of shining floodlights on building exteriors. Especially where I lived in Mountain View -- hell, I could drive home without flipping on my headlights in some areas. Hello? Is the idea that we might accidentally walk or drive into these windowless cement monoliths?
Let's not even talk about the redundant lighting used around shopping malls. It gives me the heebs just thinking about it.
Who do we have to talk to at Yahoo! to encourage them to shut off all the damned neon on that billboard at night as a gesture of energy conservation?
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Get the dotcoms to own up to their energy waste.
While there are a lot of things that
we, as individuals, can do to conserve energy,
the biggest wasters are the companies that employ us.
Many businesses are doing things to conserve electricity -- such as certain grocery stores which have shut off lights in freezer and cooler sections (obviously, not Safeway). Why not other types of businesses?
Just look around you as you zip up and down 101 -- for instance, do we REALLY need the neon lights on the stupid Yahoo! billboard before the 6th or 4th St offramp in San Francisco? Let's not even talk about how much energy is wasted by the stupid double-sided Coca Cola billboard. While we're at it, let's talk about floodlights on billboards at night.
Or perhaps the ridiculous habit many companies have of shining floodlights on building exteriors. Especially where I lived in Mountain View -- hell, I could drive home without flipping on my headlights in some areas. Hello? Is the idea that we might accidentally walk or drive into these windowless cement monoliths?
Let's not even talk about the redundant lighting used around shopping malls. It gives me the heebs just thinking about it.
Who do we have to talk to at Yahoo! to encourage them to shut off all the damned neon on that billboard at night as a gesture of energy conservation?