Go Green

This week NBC Universal went green, and by this I don’t mean they gave in to the writers strike. Using the slogan “Green is Universal”, NBC promoted the concept of helping to make the environment cleaner. To advertise their promotion, NBC, MSNBC, SciFi, USA, etc. all donned a green look, along with providing eco-friendly tips in their programming. The promotions included tips on recycling, saving electricity, not keeping your car engine running, buying organic foods, etc.

The Today show kicked off the week with broadcasts from different parts of the earth, sending Matt Lauer to the Artic Circle, Al Roker to Ecuador (the Equator), and Ann Curry to Antarctica. “Today Goes to the Ends of the Earth” was designed to highlight the causes and effects of global warming.

So will this campaign have an affect on the people of the world? Well if we all worked together we could help to make our world a cleaner place to live. Wouldn’t it be nice? It’s certainly a great idea, and who knows, maybe there would be some sort of Nobel Prize dedicated to the people who made an effort to improving the environment. I mean if Al Gore can get a prize for having a bright idea anything is possible- not that he was the first to think of protecting our environment.

We only have one planet to call home, so perhaps it’s time that we all try our best to go green.