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Is the internet dirty or green?

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Patrick Clair as produced a fantastic video which asks; “How Green is your internet?” and in it people may discover the web is browner than they thought.

Apple and Facebook are two villians in the piece. Google and Yahoo are two of the best. In particular, Google is trying to be carbon neutral, has set up Google Energy to invest millions in green energy – including $20m on high altitute kites that harvest wind power.

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Are you surprised by the video? Do you doubt it?

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Ecotopia – Play the game on Facebook, save the planet

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Indie game studio Talkie issued a brave challenge during the Games for Change Festival. They promised to plant 25,000 trees in the real world, which could remove about 100,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere if Ecotopia players could plant more than 25,000 trees in 25 days (or less) in the Facebook page.

It’s more than a PR stunt from Talkie. The whole Games for Change Festival is about showing how online games can have a positive effect in the real world.

Chris Swain, founder and CEO of Talkie, and a professor and research institute director at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media Division said;

“Our goal for Ecotopia is to create awareness, engagement and activism within our community and beyond.

“Deforestation releases nearly two billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, meaning the destruction of the world’s forests harms not only local communities, but Earth as a whole. With the help of our fans this challenge will allow us to make a larger global impact, working toward a positive change through attainable actions in-game.”

Players and Facebook users an join the game here.

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Is this a good idea or has this blogger been greenwashed? Do you plan on taking part?

Photograph of ghostly child taken in Redhill, Surrey

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Does this photograph show a ghostly child?

The photograph was taken by the mother of the boy in red. Sirus Walsh is five, lives in Redhill Surrey and lives in a house alongside several ghosts. The family is relaxed about the supernatural presence and denies the photograph, which was taken on a mobile phone, is doctored.

Sirus’s grandmother, Julie Smith, 52, told press;

My daughter was just taking pictures of her children larking about with her new phone, when she saw that the first photo of her two boys had a halo over both of them.

“She thought, “This isn’t right” and deleted it – and it was when she took the next picture that we noticed Sirus’s little playmate.

What was quite strange is she put it on to Facebook, and within an hour it must have had about 20 comments – but then it disappeared off the site.”

In the Metro, Ms Smith also explained a family friend has “the Gift” and can see lots of “people from the other side” in the house.

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What do you think? Does the family have the technical skills to mashup a ghostly image? Is the Facebook claim a little dodgy or do we think ghosts can hack the social network’s database now?

Picture credit: Newsteam.

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