“This was really, I think, our first visible step in thinking about how do we use technology to make the sustainable choice the easiest choice,” she said. The site has evolved to its current iteration that provides tips to people interested in reducing food, water, and energy waste and prolonging the life of consumer products. In 2018, Google teamed up with the California Academy of Sciences and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to create an interactive online tool called Your Plan, Your Planet. And its Nest smart thermostats can affect daily household energy-use decisions. These companies’ products and services are already widespread in developed nations, but Google holds a unique spot in the sustainability push because of its involvement in people’s everyday decisions about transportation through Google Maps and Google Flights. Apple’s goal is to be carbon-neutral across its supply chain and products by 2030, adding to the carbon neutrality it already claims for its global operations. Amazon, a big player in the energy-hungry world of data centers, aims for net zero by 2040. Microsoft is also a leader, aiming to be carbon-negative by that year. With its 2030 net-zero goal, Google has one of the most aggressive sustainability plans among Big Tech companies. She heads sustainability across the company’s global operations, products and supply chain, coordinating those efforts with the company’s data center, real estate, and product teams. These efforts are overseen by chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt, who headed the Obama administration’s sustainability efforts in 20 before taking a job as sustainability lead with Google. Google’s sustainability efforts span its offerings, ranging from machine learning to help cool its data centers to smart thermostats that conserve home energy. While it isn’t as impactful as electrifying the transportation sector, the initiative illustrates Google’s three-pillar approach to climate change: decarbonizing its operations and supply chain, using its technology and data to enable cities and businesses to calculate their carbon footprints, and helping consumers make sustainable choices. That’s the equivalent of getting 100,000 fuel-burning cars off the road. The app feature has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 500,000 metric tons, the company said last week. The efforts have the added benefits of boosting the company’s standing with investors who prioritize environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards. It also makes me appreciate how much music she has on her I-pod to listen to while she drives.Eco-routing, which displays a small leaf next to the Google Maps directions with the lowest carbon footprint, is just one of many initiatives Google has launched to help others achieve “deep decarbonization” as it works toward its own net-zero emissions target in 2030. As a Realtor Google maps can be a great tool in the tool box for setting showings creating neighborhood mapping and community research, but now knowing how it comes about just makes it that much cooler. I am happy I bumped into the super energetic lady and dove into checking this out. Crazy! Check out their website to check out some of the cool stuff. Their technology is beginning to be used to be able to check out landmarks, go through museums to see art and see ice sculptures on the top of Alps. They literally are in the process of going through every trail, to the top of every mountain and middle of every ocean. Not only does Google Maps have cars that do the roads they have boats, snow mobiles, and bikes. It made me do a little research on this process and holy cow. She says she has been on the road for several months and was heading back soon. Drive this car 10 miles per hour through every street, road boulevard, alley, country road and highway from LA to Denver. How long does this take? Her job for Google Maps while here in Denver is simply this. It finally tipped my curiosity so far when I saw her in front of my house in Stapleton almost a week later.Īfter she pictured me in my alley in my golf cart, I had to pull her over and ask. Then saw it again in Park Hill almost 2 weeks later. But it became facsinating to me when I saw this goofy little hybrid car meandering through my old neighborhood at 12th and Pearl.
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