Okay, I don't know much at all about Blockbuster's GQ (Green Quotient), but their new online movie service can't be bad for the environment:
"Blockbuster Launches Internet Movie Downloads"
This is a prime example of how IT is making the Green Revolution possible.
By the way, I know Blockbuster isn't the first to offer this service, but they're so damn big that anything they do to cut down on auto travel can have a huge positive impact. Imagine no trips to the video store and no mail trucks carrying your DVD's to your mailbox.
So, what other items/activities in your life could be obtained/performed online, thus eliminating auto travel? Correspondence has long moved to e-mail and Facebook. You can renew driver's licenses and do other government-related crap online. I read the NY Times online. What hasn't been thought of yet?
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In thinking of Green Online Ideas, I came up with a few non-original things that need to be perfected:
The Online Classroom
Online Grocery Shopping (It does exist, but not on a large scale)
Online Medical Visit (does a doctor really need to see you to prescribe a Z-Pak?)
How about election voting??? The secure technology is in place to facilitate it.
Or face-to-face meetings via HD VC's (plug)??
Or Virtual vacations using the technology involved in those stationary rides at theme parks that make you feel like you're moving, or being chased by dinosaurs.
As for the article, it just goes to show you that physical media is a sinking ship.
The "carbon-based" economy has to go eventually. It's a 19th century framework.
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