Kindermusik green: Doodle 4 Google!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Doodle 4 Google!

You've probably seen this already, but Google today has this announcement:
"Your child's design could be our logo and appear in the National Design Museum".

Check it out . . .

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we're inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme "What I Wish for the World."

These are exciting times and both our country and the world are on the brink of significant change. At Google we believe in thinking big, and dreaming big, and we can't think of anything more important than encouraging students to do the same.

Registration closes at 11:59:59 PM Pacific time on March 17, 2009 and entries are due by 11:59:59 PM Pacific time on March 31, 2009. Teachers, you'll find everything you need to get started on the Registration page. Only teachers or school employees should register. Parents or students who are interested should contact their teacher to register them.

What I Wish For The World?

… we use plants for electricity
… we make college free for everyone
… we give health insurance to all who need it
… we connect everyone by cell phone or computer

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GREEN DICTIONARY

sustainability
1. ability to be sustained or maintained
2. capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely
3. ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Daly’s Rules:
1. Renewable resources must be used no faster than the rate at which they regenerate.
2. Nonrenewable resources must be used no faster than renewable substitutes for them can be put into place.
3. Pollution and wastes must be emitted no faster than natural systems can absorb them, recycle them, or render them harmless.
(Source: University of Maryland School of Public Policy professor and former Chief Economist for the World Bank Herman E. Daly (working from theory initially developed by Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and laid out in his 1971 opus "The Entropy Law and the Economic Process"))

carbon footprint

1. The total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced to support human activities, directly or indirectly.
2. The total amount of CO2 attributable to the actions of an individual (which includes emissions through their energy use, as well as other unforeseen emissions) over a period of one year.