Green business, UrbanScooters.com, is giving away an Apple iPad in their latest contest. To be entered in the drawing for to win, all you have to do is watch their latest promotional video, entitled "Chimpanzee Riding on a Go-Ped," and correctly guess who is in the gorilla suit. UrbanScooters.com has provided a number of clues across the internet that will help you track down the correct answer. The last day to enter an answer is at 12 Noon PT on March 31, 2011, so you better hurry! You can Log onto their contest page for more information.
"Chimpanzee Riding on a Go-Ped" is a play on the viral video "Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway," which features, adorable Chimpanzee, Pan-Kun riding a Segway on a Japanese game show and an orginal song by Perry Gripp.
UrbanScooters.com is an eco-friendly business that sells "a variety of products—mainly electric scooters and bikes—to help bridge the gap between home and public transportation." They have been featured in the environmental weekly series Neon Tommy, which focuses on green living. Being more eco-friendly is something that UrbanScooters.com has been committed to since its début in 2002. UrbanScooters.com gears their business toward conscientious consumers who wish to move "toward greener transportation options" as well as those "looking to reduce their carbon footprint."
In the latest video from Story of Stuff, narrator Annie Leonard uncovers the secret life of our electronics and exposes some startling information about the effects our cherished gadgets have on human health and the environment.
Ever wonder why our electronics seem to have a life span just short of two years? It all started back in the 1960s when semiconductor pioneer, Thomas Moore, predicted that "electronic designers [could] double processor speed every eighteen months." This novel idea became known as Moore's law and has since proven fairly accurate. Sadly, electronics companies have taken this to mean they can make their products shoddy, so people will buy more and more often. The result is a substantial increase in profits for them, but ample trouble for us.
One big reason is because "today's electronics routinely contain toxic chemicals like lead, mercury, PVC, chlorine, and bromines." During the 90s, Electronics giant IBM found themselves in a lot of trouble after the study they commissioned revealed that women who worked on computer chips in their Silicone Valley facilities suffered more miscarriages than women in the general populous. According to theSilicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) , IBM, among many others, have since taken "their manufatcoring to offshore places of lower environmental and labor protections." Mostly in countries like "Costa Rica, Mexico, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Scotland."
At the end of their short lives, most of our old televisions, computers and cell phones are sent to landfills; a mere 20 percent are recycled. However, in many cases, the outcome is just as dismal. As it turns out, about "50 to 80 percent of [recycled electronics are] shipped overseas to Asia and Africa where [they are] broken apart by workers to extract the small bits of valuable metals." The workers and their surroundings then
For those who may be unfamiliar with the Yes Men, they are a duo of activists who use pranks and humor to draw attention to the atrocities done by large corporations against those who, too often, can't fight back.
They are infamous for taking on Exxon Mobile, BP and Dow Chemical, and now they have set their sights on Chevron, who have recently spent a great deal in order to finance an expensive PR campaign entitled "We Agree."
The We Agree Campaign can best be surmised as a means to con consumers into believing that Chevron has the publics' best interest in mind. But Slogans like "Oil Companies should support the communities they're a part of" stand in stark contrast to the fact that have yet to address their role in refusing to clean up the toxic pollution it left in the Ecuadorean Amazon. RANreports that " the 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste polluting Ecuador’s rainforest could lead to as many as 10,000 Ecuadoreans dying of cancer by 2080."
