go team, go

I'm not a paid shill for the company -- yet! But! It turns out Google has a philanthropic arm, google.org.

Stated goals are:

- Global Development: develop scalable, sustainable solutions to poverty by focusing on economic growth in the private sector and improving access to information and services for the poor.

- Global Public Health: enable the world to better predict, prevent and eradicate communicable diseases through better access to and use of information.

- Climate Change: mitigate the effect of climate change on the poor by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, and supporting clean energy sources.

Sounds like a plan! Let's save the world! Information for everybody and cleaner tech ahoy!

Also: if you weren't aware, the Goog has been investing in alternate-energy vehicles, encouraging employees to use them (they'll subsidize you a hybrid! maybe they'll subsidize me a hybrid sooner or later...), and according to /. just now, working on lower-power computers.)