Tech giants Google and Apple have sent out their messages on the ocassion of Earth Day on Saturday.
Eat less meat, opt for carpooling, and unplug unused electronic devices—do your bit and make a huge difference to saving Earth, suggests Google's Earth Day Doodle. Doing these small things could go a long way in helping save the only known planet in the universe that harbours life.
"Whatever you do today, we hope you're able to take a moment to savour and cherish this boundless, stunning Earth that we inhabit," Google said in a statement. At an estimated 4.543 billion years of age, the Earth is also the densest planet in the solar system and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.
Google's Earth Day Doodle follows the story of a fox who dreams about an Earth that has been polluted and adversely affected by climate change. The fox wakes with a startle, and urgently starts making small lifestyle changes to care for the Earth. Along the way, the fox enlists friends—including Momo the cat, and Google Weather's favourite frog—to join its quest to protect and nurture the environment. To combat things like coral bleaching and pollution, the three eco-rangers are inspired to take action such as eating less meat, carpooling, and unplugging unused electronic devices.
"That's some heroic work for tiny animals!" Google said. Can we humans do a little more? That is probably the question that will arise in everyone's mind after watching the Doodle. To help answer, Google Search offers easy Earth Day tips to help you do your part in saving our planet, including supporting critical conservation efforts such as wildlife conservation with World Wildlife Fund and coral reef conservation with The Ocean Agency.
In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Apple has released a new video series featuring candid interviews with employees leading Apple's efforts to address climate change, conserve resources and pioneer safer materials. The new video series that the tech titan posted on its page features yaks, breathing buildings and making one-half gallon of artificial sweat every day.
As a part of the celebration, Apple told about its new headquarters based in Cupertino, California. 'Apple Park', which opened for its employees earlier in April, is the world's largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year.
Apple's new headquarters replaced five million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native, drought-resistant trees, and is powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, the company said.
With 17 MW of rooftop solar, Apple Park will run one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world. According to the '2017 Environmental Responsibility Report' Apple was now powering 96 per cent of its operations with renewable energy in the company's offices, retail stores and product distribution centres. Apple is now 100 per cent renewable in 24 countries, including all of its data centres.
In the report, Apple also set an aim to help put an end to mining on earth and said it is planning to use 100 per cent recycled material to manufacture its products. In 2016, Apple launched Liam, the experimental automated technology that disassembles iPhone 6 for recycling.
