How Singaporeans Can Encourage Facebook to Unfriend Coal by Earth Day
February 4, 2011 by Eugene Tay
Filed under Blog
Greenpeace is campaigning to get Facebook to unfriend coal by Earth Day, April 22, and Singaporeans can help to encourage Facebook too.
Greenpeace’s Unfriend Coal campaign wants Facebook to:
- Increase the use of clean energy to make Facebook coal free
- Develop a plan to make Facebook coal free by 2021
- Educate users about how Facebook powers its services and its carbon footprint
- Advocate for clean energy at a local, national and international level
Facebook announced last year that it is building a new energy efficient data centre to serve the hundreds of millions of its users, but the company plans to run it on electricity from burning coal, which is the most carbon intensive fossil fuel and also very pollutive. Greenpeace believes that Facebook can move away from coal and switch to clean energy, and influence the rest of the IT sector to do likewise. Read more
Launch of Low Carbon Singapore
May 20, 2009 by Eugene Tay
Filed under Blog
Green Future Solutions has just launched our new website, Low Carbon Singapore, an online community dedicated to help Singapore reduce her carbon emissions and move towards the goal of a low carbon economy. Our aim is to educate individuals, communities, businesses and organisations on issues relating to climate change, global warming and clean energy, and to help them take action and reduce their carbon footprint through useful information, news, tips and resources.
Do take some time to browse around our site at http://www.lowcarbonsg.com. If you have any suggestions to make the site better or to report any bugs, do let us know. Thanks.
