Yahoo Goes Green as Promised.

Not to be out done by Google's environmental efforts, or that of Microsoft's Solar Power efforts that got beaten by Google's (again?) Yahoo has applied it self to save the world from all the environmental issues. They promise to go carbon neutral by end of the year.
Instead of dealing with messy solar panels and get beaten by Google in KW's Yahoo is following Al Gore, a Nobel winner. After much due diligence, Yahoo! has decided to offset its 250 thousand metric ton carbon footprint from 2006 through wind power in India and Hydro power projects in Brazil.
This amount of greenhouse gases is roughly equivalent to driving 35,000 cars for a year or lighting the Las Vegas strip for two months, said Christine Page, director of climate and energy strategy at Yahoo, as the company announced its plans.
Yahoo! is partnering with local businesses to purchase offsets from 43 750-kilowatt wind turbines in Vankuswade, Maharashtra, in western India and Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu, in southern India. This investment was particularly important as India is one of the most carbon-producing regions in the world. Yahoo is also exploring various community programs that will support and empower residents of these communities.
In Brazil, Catorce de Abril, a small village in the state of Rondonia, 1,400 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, is powered by the Primavera hydropower project, which produces the offsets that Yahoo! has purchased. There Kids goes to School that has electricity and Yahoo will provide Internet connection and computers and peripherals use and reach the rest of the world.
Thank you Yahoo for stepping in to it!

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