Tag: green

Stay together for the planet

Are you in a bad marriage? Was that night in Vegas a little too crazy for you? Does it look like it’s just not going to work out in the end? Are you tired of your spouse’s abusive ways? Do you want to get a divorce? Don’t be so selfish, you need to stay together for the sake of the Earth.

One lawmaker in Australia claims that married couples are less wasteful than ones that are not. If you get a divorce, you’re even more likely to live a wasteful lifestyle, according to Senator Steve Fielding. That whole single thing means you need more water, more electricity and you know, your own place to live.

What’s left out is the wasteful side effect of happy couples: children. They eat more food, they poop in non-biodegradable diapers, and they represent another future car on the road.

WoW is greener than you

Stanford Professor Byron Reeves thinks World of Warcraft can be harnessed as an energy-saving tool by attaching Smart Meter readings to gameplay goals. Sadly, he wants energy-saving, not energy building.

Smart Meters monitor the electricity in a household and feed that information to power companies. By uploading it to WoW instead, Reeves thinks the game could become a tool to encourage environmental awareness.

Reeves went on radio show Living on Earth for their Green Gaming segment last Saturday to pitch the idea:

“So imagine that you’re in your home, you’re signed into [the] game… and you make a decision in the game to turn off the lights in an unused bedroom [in real life]. As soon as you do that, the Smart Meter recognizes that, sends the information through the network to your computer and your house [in the game] turns a shade of green that it wasn’t before. And if I’m using less electricity, my team might do well. I get gold pieces and points… whatever the game designers think is fun. You get feedback in an entertainment game about what you’re doing in the real world.”

At his office, Reeves said the point of having Smart Meters as part of gameplay was to get gamers thinking about ways to be more energy efficient while letting them game … because what WoW players need to know is how to become more efficient while playing that game.

You know what would be a much better device for the WoW player? The Cheetometer, used to measure the amount of Cheetos intake by the average WoW player.

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I’m totally calling trademark dibs on “Cheetometer”.

Save the environment and turn heads

All kinds of things can be done to be considered “green.” It can be as easy as recycling or taking mass transit to work. But ladies, you can now go green simply by wearing a different kind of undergarment.

Enter the solar powered bra. Ladies, get ready to use your fun bags to produce enough energy to charge a cell phone or an iPod. Of course, all this requires is that you go out in the sun in just your bra so that the solar cells can work. The Guys fully support this groundbreaking technology.