
Clean Energy 2030. Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it gets the point across for it’s the name of Google’s globe saving plan that would see the climate crisis averted with dedicated reformation and preemptive solutions culminating in the year 2030. The targets are based on reductions from the Energy Information Administration’s current baseline and would see everything from vehicle emissions to CO2 emissions in the electricity sector. The plan calls for, among other things, a marked rise in the use of plug-in and hybrid cars (with the goal of 90% of all new cars being sold in the year 2030 being of those varieties), as well as the replacement of all coal and oil power plants and a fifty percent decrease in the reliance upon natural gas for energy.
And all this at the bargain price of $4.4 trillion dollars. But seriously, what the hell is green paper worth when your entire country is under miles of fresh glacial waters?
Ah, not a day goes by that we don’t hear something from the music biz. Today we’re fortunate enough to have two nice tidbits. The first is that for a mere £129.99 (approx. $220 USD) you can download an unlimited amount of tunes from Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music—for a year. The ‘deal’ comes in the form of a pay-as-you-go phone. It’s all part of Nokia’s Comes With Music campaign that in this case sees the phone manufacturer signing over cheques to the record companies for each handset it sells. Tracks can be downloaded to the device itself and one other computer.
So how about it; $220 a year for unlimited
music? Probably the same amount it costs per hour to retain a lawyer that’s
capable of defending you against music piracy charges.

