Google's commitment to sustainability goes back two decades, but our third decade of climate action will be our most ambitious yet. Find out more about our plans at g.co/carbonfree
I came here to say that the little leaf falling down on the google homepage never fails to give me a mini heart attack. It looks like a bug scurrying across the screen.
I dont know if anyone else got emotional watching this but I did. I drive for a better future for the world, and I hope we manage to heal the world because its our only chance to do so. We are our future, and we need to take care of the planet before its too late.
@Andong As a big tech company, I think they can feel responsible for their actions. Can you tell me what other company as big as Google is so invested in sustainable energy?
your google action doesn't make sense. human activity can change the temperature on Earth by a maximum of 0.5 degrees Celsius. taking into account the entire planet - including India, Russia and South America. The sun's activity has the greatest impact on the temperature on the ground and we have no influence on it, so do not invent shares that are only supposed to draw money from our wallets for something that does not make sense!
Other companies won't do this because that almost a lose for them and they keep making profits couze that's all they do they make profits and nothing more.
the world would be better if more companies were efficient and competitive. Google can waste money on that political propaganda because it became a monopoly
They don't care. It's a smoke screen plain and simple. They're just like every company*, good PR to hid the rest of it. Easy to say we're doing this but hard to say weren't not doing that.
@@vetobandito2635 1. any evidence they're meddling in elections? 2. any evidence they're in a "campaign to assist in destabilizing [specific country that a large international organization cares about specifically]"
How exactly do you offset the co2 emissions of the production of all your phones and smart home devices that are manufactured in China? This is marketing BS and clever fudging of numbers.
your google action doesn't make sense. human activity can change the temperature on Earth by a maximum of 0.5 degrees Celsius. taking into account the entire planet - including India, Russia and South America. The sun's activity has the greatest impact on the temperature on the ground and we have no influence on it, so do not invent shares that are only supposed to draw money from our wallets for something that does not make sense!
@@metalenski9174 No duh sherlock. The problem is that we aren't the source of the heat increase. We are a big source of trapping the heat. Co2 and other gases trap the sun's heat inside of earth's atmosphere.
Don't forget about the AI tools google sold to big oil drilling companies how many tons of co2 did that produce? But now Google will ride around on their high horse and pass the guilt on to the consumer to buy there eco friendly products, like apple getting rid of the charger to be "eco friendly" but will refuse to repair an old product, they deflect and pass the problem on to us, when they should be taxed on the amount of carbon produced overall.
Thank you google. I really really do appreciate the effort you put into this. It warms my heart and gives me hope that others might follow the patch you went and yet I am aware that this topic belongs to everyone, we all are responsible for our actions and the way we live, me included. We all can and have to contribute for the better. Again, thanks a lot. Much love from Germany!
I'm here to say Thank you Google people who has been leading all this amazing projects. I'm seriously amazed. I will support more your guys business from this moment. Thank you.
It's called "virtue signaling". In their 2004 founders' letter[14] prior to their initial public offering, Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that their "Don't be evil" culture prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias: (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil). Of course, they're none of that, now.
Coming here from that nice (although unexpected) leaf falling down on Google's homepage. Didn't know about all of this, I'm glad I do now. Keep being awesome, Google.
I'm not sure I have the same enthusiasm as others. 85% of the pollution is made during the manufacture of a device. For example in wind turbines there are rare metals such as magnets and copper. Ditto in the mirrors of solar power plants. They contain copper, lead. Has Google taken into account the entire chain of creation of devices to generate the "renewable" energy they use to say that they compensate in carbon equivalent? All scientists agree that the best renewable energy is to consume as little as possible. Every hour around the world, more than 140 million queries are made on Google. According to Harvard researcher Wissner-Gross, each Google request emits 7 grams of CO2. So in one hour, the CO2 emitted by emails from all over the world is equivalent to 1000 Paris - New York round trips. How is google working to reduce this consumption?
Did you know that solar power plant has a gas supply cos it doesn't get hot enough by itself and is now derelict anyway and wind generators need a massive concrete base to hold them down not to mention the non recyclable blades! I'm with you mate and not convinced!! also I don't expect all the google employees walk or cycle to work lol! Have you watched Planet of the humans???
My heart overflows with gratitude for your reforestation program! The only other company I know who has a reforestation program is Wayerhouser. For every tree they cut down, they plant 10 trees. My dad worked for them and he told me about it.
I don't even work for Google and I'm so proud of you all for this. In the past, there was the "shareholder" and the "stakeholder" concept. Work hard as a company to improve shareholder value, but do no harm to the stakeholders of the world. You all take that initial mantra of "don't be no evil" to it's greatest limit with your climate change efforts. Congrats and may you accomplish well above what you've set out to do.
That's just marketing. Every big company is making these claims right now. Apple did it and Microsoft too. Edit: amazon wants to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Why do you think they're lying? First of all, my man Bill Gates has given millions of dollars to a dozen of charities, one including the Earth Institute: a foundation based around sustainability and educating people about the crisis, so why do you think he's lying?
@@moosey7165 Endowments / Foundations are tax avoidance and reputation improvement schemes for unpopular managers - which he was at the end of the 1990ties. According to journalist Richard Rothstein, for every $10 a "philanthropist" like Bill Gates gives away, the government loses about $4 in tax breaks. The ideas his foundations follow are paid with billions in tax payer money at "pledging conferenes" etc. And ofc he uses to invests in companies that are then later backed by taxpayer money. he made billions from the plandemic.
While i usually go after big tech on basically everything, we gotta give it to the companies and reward them when they're focusing on issues we as customers care about. Good job Google. While I get mad at you about some of your advertising tactics and monopoly over many markets, this was a good move and I'm really happy you did it.
Yeah, I'm frankly not sure how much I trust this message (what parts _aren't_ they telling us?), but... the message is good, at least, and as a former Googler, I can attest that there's at least _some_ veracity to _some_ of these claims... so... hopefully they're doing good more than evil (though they've dropped "Don't be Evil", so... who knows?!?!)
Another way for consumers to be more energy efficient is to buy Titanium+ Power Supplies, to get the maximum electricity for the power that you pay. That way less of it goes out as heat, and you pay less in electricity bills. ❤️
Titanium+ power supplies are very pricey. People should try to at least get a Gold or Platinum power supply. The different is only 1-3% efficiency. And if it's not a gaming computer then the wattage saved is negligible with only a 1-3% difference.
Finally it's good to know google is doing something good, we need to spread the word because lots of people on earth don't seem to care about our planet :(
that leaf falling on my window page surprised me a little and my collegue caught its attention. i knew there's something new when you click it. all the best to google and hope that other major company will follow suit with regards to helping our environment.
@@IAm-zo1bo Every company's priority should be money. That is what leads to impressive things such as youtube (ty capitalism). "Just bought it"? Alphabet has owned youtube for the vast majority of its existence. Yotube was impressive before and has become even more impressive under Alphabet. You do not need to be a "fan" of something in order for it to be impressive. I am not a fan apple, but their engineering is impressive. I am not a "fan" of China, but the way they slap around America is impressive.
:-) Сжигая мусор, вы очищаете природу. Углекислый газ это естественный продукт перерабатываемый фауной. Безумцы. Ваш бред равносилен, недать рекам попасть в моря и океаны.
Всем нужно что бы вы сделали кнопку перевода субтитров на определенный язык, чтобы по нажатию этой кнопки любое видео всегда переводилось на один определённый язык. Если вы этого не понимаете то мне вас очень жаль.
I'd like to know what is meant by "science based reforestation", I'm asking because I know an example forest which burned down august 2018 in Brandenburg, Germany. The city administration planted trees shortly after and and many of them dried out, there are trees on that field but the vast majority of them were not planted and regrew naturally. At the other end which also burned down but got left to nature, nature is regenerating and preparing the eco system to get back to it's natural cycle, even after a fire. There aren't just herbacous plants that grow but poplars, pine and other trees. I'm sceptical about this, but if you want to reforestate something you can and should just take care of a space you want trees and plants to grow on and leave it alone. I'd like to read the science papers upon which your attempt is based on.
your google action doesn't make sense. human activity can change the temperature on Earth by a maximum of 0.5 degrees Celsius. taking into account the entire planet - including India, Russia and South America. The sun's activity has the greatest impact on the temperature on the ground and we have no influence on it, so do not invent shares that are only supposed to draw money from our wallets for something that does not make sense!
Gloating only reveals self-righteousness! If there wasn't so much of it, then I would feel more appreciative. Instead, I was distracted from reading all of Google's accomplishments. Thank you Google for two decades, I'm looking forward to the next decade of changes. Keep up the great job!
your google action doesn't make sense. human activity can change the temperature on Earth by a maximum of 0.5 degrees Celsius. taking into account the entire planet - including India, Russia and South America. The sun's activity has the greatest impact on the temperature on the ground and we have no influence on it, so do not invent shares that are only supposed to draw money from our wallets for something that does not make sense!
@@metalenski9174 Stop spreading lies, since the 1950's human activity has raised Earth's climate by 0.65 degrees. Even though this is seemingly small, it can have drastic effects on how the ecosystem works. For example, half a degree of increased temperature would double the length of droughts. While yes the sun does have a large impact on Earth and we can not change it, scientists have confirmed with satellites that the sun has not had an upward trend in temperature since the 1970's. Additionally, if the sun was causing all of this then we'd see it in all layers of the atmosphere, instead, we're only seeing this increase in temperature at the surface where we are emitting all the CO2.
Wait.... 3 decades and still nothing has changed about the situation? Very Suspicious. Where is all of the funding going over 30 Years if it isn't helping the issue at hand?
Google you need to be more public about this. I had no idea Google was carbon neutral and was doing all these things to help the environment. Google needs to push and promote this more.
yes they can here is how: google has exactly 132,121 employees, a normal human adult produce around 700g of co2/day. using the power of math(132,121x700) we can calculate that google produces 92,484kg of co2/day through human breathing alone, and we know that on average a pine tree absorbs 118kg of co2/day, so as long as they plant 783 pine trees they can bring their total carbon dioxide production to 0 which means carbon-free. And it seems from their video that they are working out an even better way to solve this 1:57 "remove carbon from the atmosphere through science-based reforestation"
You want C02... Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas that helps to trap heat in our atmosphere. Without it, our planet would be inhospitably cold.
It's really cool, but the messaging is deceptive. How is it they were carbon neutral in 2007 but only in 2017 where they matching their consumption with renewable energy? In their site, they say "In 2007, we were the first major company to commit to carbon neutrality". Commitment vs achieving it is quite different.
Unfortunately the numbers listed here, while commendable, mean nothing. 5 Gigawatts of carbon free power? So what? We need many terrawatts of carbon free power to make any difference.
You know nothing about the liar controllers and this is complete propaganda for those who know nothing of clean energy suppression. Clean energy not for the public. Boy ! Girl !
your google action doesn't make sense. human activity can change the temperature on Earth by a maximum of 0.5 degrees Celsius. taking into account the entire planet - including India, Russia and South America. The sun's activity has the greatest impact on the temperature on the ground and we have no influence on it, so do not invent shares that are only supposed to draw money from our wallets for something that does not make sense!
i came here because i was curious if google searches would go in the history log, in incognito mode. no it does not. what i got from it really put a smile on my face! good job Google!
WoW, it'd take a few pennies to add more potent pebbles to the carburetor. Don't say anything, it may be offset by utilities. Just travel to Heaven and then come back is better alternative.
has to be weirdest comment section ıve seen in my entire life. Never seen so many people living under a rock came together in one area, sucking up to the most basic corporation propaganda.
Well, corporations want to have a brainless hoard that will not feel bad for using their product or even better, making people feel superior because they using the product of the corporation.
Да что там отработанные, их же и произвести еще надо, так же как и солнечные панели, это тоже оставляет углеродный след. Задолбали с запудриванием мозгов, видео для не умеющих думать.
Out in the country we use cardboard as a soil mulch with leaves on top around our vegetables, trees, and shrubs (blueberries, yum!). Please pass the word to companies to begin using tapes and other packaging that are bio degradable so we can use this cardboard without eventual pollution of our soil. We have no recycling out here, so if we can turn things, not just tapes, into compost or mulch to eventually turn to compost, it will cut way back on the rubbish heaps we have in the country. We drive 15 miles to the store and it would be nice to have more degradable packaging of all sorts. Thanks for passing this along.
