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Save the Planet and Win: Environmental social network
Going green is more than just a trend, it's ultimately going to become the future. In order to improve sustainability and reduce carbon emissions, we all need to band together. The problem for a lot of people (I know it's a problem for me) is that going green is often well, boring. Berkeley, California based Save the Planet and Win is hoping to change that, by bringing some fun to the serious subject of sustainability.Save the Planet and Win, is a social network of sorts where you can track your carbon footprint, chart reductions you are making and participate and encourage others to do the same. It's kind of like Make Me Sustainable, a service we covered earlier this year that lets you track and share your carbon reductions and sustainability goals. Save the Planet and Win is a Voluntary Personal Carbon Registry (they say they are the first in the United States) and you can even buy verified carbon offsets from the Carbon Offset Store.
But Save the Planet and Win has a slight twist: you can "win" stuff just by participating. Basically in exchange for watching a 30 second green ad, the sponsor will make a credit to your account. Those credits can be used to purchase carbon offsets, dedicated to a social cause or you can cash the points out for actual dollars.
This is pretty interesting, and it kind of addresses an issue I personally think is essential for individual (and even more importantly, corporate) involvement in environmental sustainability: monetary incentives. If by watching an ad, learning how to help save energy or better reduce my footprint can end up helping a cause I care about or can help me purchase carbon offsets, I'm all for it.
You can sign up at Save the Planet and Win, it's free and the ultimate goal is really important.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said 5:23PM on 12-05-2008
::sigh::
hippies...
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Mike said 9:11PM on 12-05-2008
Yeah, that's why world temps have been dropping for the last seven years.
Every day I go out in my back yard and burn as many leaves and logs as I can. It's cold here in Michigan and we could use a little more warming.
You hippies are going to look like such fools in years to come when the truth really comes out.
One tip: Follow the money and see who is getting rich off this and you'll see that it's the same people screaming gloom and doom.
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RG said 12:43AM on 12-06-2008
@Mike, you made it too easy. It's called climate change, don't get fooled by catch phrases (ie global warming) in the media, not every single location is warmer every time, in fact climate change models predict more snow in some areas for example, not to mention 'outside factors' (one example, El Nino) can affect temps temporarily and believe me 7 years is nothing. But just for the fun of it show me the proof that total planet temps have fallen the last seven years and I will show you pictures of most of the polar ice melting during summers.
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Dan said 12:23PM on 12-06-2008
That's a good one Mike.
It's like you're standing in the buffet line on the Titanic saying, "The Titanic can't be sinking, I don't see any water."
It's OK though, a lot of really smart people are working on saving the planet for your future generations too.
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Darkbhudda said 4:37AM on 12-07-2008
Going green is more than just a trend...it's a cult.
Fixed.
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alex1jam said 8:38PM on 12-17-2008
save the world!
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