Google und der Umweltschutz

• In 2007 Google gave free bicycles to all its employees in Europe.
• Google's San Francisco shuttle bus service is the biggest of any company in the area. One shared car provides as much transportation as 20 privately owned cars.
• Google has the largest corporate solar panel installation in the US.

The company now ferries about 1,200 employees to and from Google daily — nearly one-fourth of its local work force — aboard 32 shuttle buses equipped with comfortable leather seats and wireless Internet access. Bicycles are allowed on exterior racks, and dogs on forward seats, or on their owners’ laps if the buses run full.

Riders can sign up to receive alerts on their computers and cellphones when buses run late. They also get to burnish their green credentials, not just for ditching their cars, but because all Google shuttles run on biodiesel. Oh, and the shuttles are free.

;-)

• Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?
• Official Google Blog: environment
• Google and Intel Spearhead Green-Computing Initiative
• Carbon-neutral Google by 2008
• Google's Carbon-Emission Plans

[via Google Operating System & NY-Times]