I didn’t know if I should have been laughing when I read a great article on TechCrunch about Google Goats replacing lawnmowers at their Mountain View Campus in California, but I did – for a while! So the story goes that Google has made moves to help lower its carbon by swapping the lawnmowers for Goats courtesy of California Grazing, who I’m sure by now have more orders than livestock!
Suposedly, each month they bring out around 200 Goats and let them roam the campus eating grass for a few days! So much is the hype about Google Goats, that TechCrunch had almost 300 comments on the post in 2 days and several follow up posts, including video live on campus of the Google Goats!
Here is the official post from Google, the funnier post from TechCrunch and the Followup Video!
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I wonder if Google has considered the fact that livestock (including goats) are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming?
You might argue that the goals are alive and are going to produce greenhouse gases regardless of being Googles lawn mower. But goats are farmed and kept in captivity and if we do not farm them for there bi-product there would be a much smaller goat population on earth, hence less air pollution.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:58 am
What a brilliant idea Kristy
Why don’t we cull all the animals (why stop at goats) so that there are no greenhouse gas emissions at all !!
Micky