Eco Fail: Second and First Hand Reports
Monday Mar 30, 2009
Had a good time cooking dinner by candlelight during Earth Hour last Saturday. My city participated, but I didn't perceive a significant dimming of the downtown glow from my front porch. There are some great photos and videos scattered around the web, and the photo of the Toronto Hydro control room in this article is cool.
Alas, if you view the photo collection on the Earth Hour site, you'll see shots of an ill-considered promotional campaign in Australia. Yes, those are cardboard people and other wrappers put around trees to tout an event about Earth consciousness. This is definitely one to share with the FAIL Blog. Sigh.
While I'm on the subject of resource depletion, I helped Roger Meike, Assistant Director of Sun Labs and SunSPOTS overlord, unpack an Asus Eee PC the other day. It's a pretty nifty device, but the un-boxing experience was a festival of plastic and other packaging. It's hard to do justice in photos to the absurd use of adhesive clear wrap - around the mouse that was then sealed in a plastic bag; on every surface of the monitor except the screen, ad nauseum. Were the Eee PC sentient, I fear it would be diagnosed with mysophobia.
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