14 DAY TRIAL // Today is Earth Day, as you might have known. And if you didn’t, you were going to find out anyway. Plenty of web companies are doing something to mark the occasion and Google is no different. It’s running an Earth Day doodle, as expected, but it’s also celebrating it at its offices worldwide.
Google Doodles have been impressive lately. The company designed a series of five doodles to mark the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen and the general agreement was that they were stunning. Google isn’t disappointing this time around either, the Earth Day logo is gorgeous.
The luscious green really stands out and the details on the rather small image are pretty impressive. And the best part is, if you look close enough, you can still make out the Google name made up by the trees and foliage.
Clicking on the image leads to a search for Earth Day with the usual sampling of news coverage, real-time results and plain old search results that we’ve come to expect from Google. The Wikipedia entry for Earth Day is the second result, as always Wikipedia tops Google’s search results, so it’s easy to get more information on the event, stuff like the fact that Earth Day is now 40 years old.
Google employees will also be celebrating Earth Day in an interesting way, by eating. But not just any kind of food, the emphasis will be on locally produced vegetables and ‘sustainable cooking.’
“Our offices are hosting farmers markets, planting herb gardens, hosting talks on sustainable cooking and much more. At our Mountain View headquarters, we’re enjoying solar cooking demonstrations, classes on composting and local food sourcing, distribution of reusable shopping bags and discussions on healthy cooking and eating. We’re also hosting a speaker from The Nature Conservancy and giving tours of our on-site 1.6MW solar panel installation and the 400kW Bloom Energy fuel cells,” Austin Rachlin, from the Green Business Operations at Google, wrote.
