You see the following logo on the Google Homepage today. It is 22nd April, the Earth day and Google is celebrating it.
The interesting thing is, Yahoo is also showing it’s green colors. Should we say, it’s “green with envy”. LOL. See the logo below.
Anyway, Google has many plans rolled out for the Earth Day. Google ’s Official blog reports the following:
1. A Google Desktop gadget called the Energy Saver. It is a plugin for the Google Desktop and will manage power settings for your computer and turn it to sleep when you are not using it for a long period.
2. The post also tells us of many other blogs who are celebrating Earth Day . One of them is a story of the reduction of paper use by using the online ( read Google docs) alternative.
It’s 9 pm, and HBO is showing “An Inconvenient Truth” here in India. It is indeed high time that we all geared up and acted positively to make our planet Earth a better place to live in . From today onwards, I shall be actively blogging about environmental issues and also about news from all across the world related to it. Do remember to check out the category GREEN to stay updated with my posts. And what better to call this little project as “Project Green”. So all my posts pertaining to Project Green will be indexed on a single page as well, and expect PG on the titles. Peace! Green Peace!!
And to all my readers, and also to all who do not read this: Happy Earth Day 
TimesofIndia had an article today on a research result revealed by climate expert and professor from the humanities department of IIT Chennai, Sudhir Chella Rajan. Here’s an excerpt.
The Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Bhelpuri at Chowpatty will become the stuff of grandmother’s tales.
No flights will take off from Chhatrapati Shivaji airport. No couple will canoodle at the Marine Drive promenade and even heirs to the bungalow of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will not be able to resist being evicted from their home.
Ninety-two years from now, all these landmarks of Mumbai will be underwater. That’s the apocalypse scenario drawn up in a report titled ‘Climate Migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions’ that has been commissioned by Greenpeace, a non-government organization.
The current climate change trends have been predicted to raise the average global temperature by 4 to 5 degrees centigrade and this will in turn cause the sea level to increase by 4 to 5 metres in the coming 90 years. The worst hit areas will be the coastal areas and cities which have concrete jungles built only at a mere height of a few metres above sea level. Mumbai is not the only place which will be a victim of this climate change, but it will include other major cities in India like Kolkata and Chennai. The resultant will be a ‘climate migration’ which will render millions homeless and billions of Rupees of property lost. Other global cities will also face the danger of getting submerged. These include London, Tokyo and New York among others.
Considering all these hazards and environmental issues surrounding the major cities of the world, how far do you think will the real-estate boom in these cities remain? Moreover, is the common man aware of these hazards, specially in a country like India where corporates and industries are busy churning money at the cost of the environment, and the common man is busy traveling from one train station to another. The time to wake up has long gone. It is now time to undo the harm.
