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Celebrities are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to help raise money and awareness for global water crisis.
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Welcome to the Planet 100 for January 12, 2010. Here's what we're covering today:
WATCH VIDEO: Celebs on Kilimanjaro, Google Energy
Kilimanjaro Celebs
This weekend a band of celebrities including Jessica Biel and Emile Hirsch are trekking up Mt. Kilimanjaro to help raise money and awareness for the global water crisis.
An interactive website allows you to track the progress—even the heart rate—of the celebrity activists who, according to the latest tweet made it to the half-way mark yesterday.
According to recent reports, the Mt. Kilimanjaro glacier could be gone within 20 years due to global warming, threatening water supplies for millions of people in Africa.
Website: Summitonthesummit.com
More Info: TreeHugger
Google Energy
Last year Google partnered with TED, the energy device, to provide homeowners with 24-7 monitoring of their home energy usage.
Now, Google wants to get into the energy business. The company recently put in an application to the FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) to create it's own energy utility producing and selling clean energy to the grid. The aim? Securing lower energy costs and helping to get more renewable energy onto the grid.
Will Google soon be offering free ad-supported energy? Probably not, but with Google you never know.
Via: ABC News
And Finally
The Sea Sheppard's anti-whaling vessel, the $2.5 million bio fuel-powered catamaran, the Ady Gil, sank on Friday morning in the Southern Ocean after being "deliberately rammed" by Japanese whaling ship, Shonan Maru 2.
Via: Huffington Post
Photo & Video Credits:
Mt. Kilimanjaro ©Getty Images
Jon Wellinghoff ©Getty Images
Video: Summit on the Summit
Google: Courtesy of Google
Power Lines ©Photos.com/Jupiter Images
Solar Panels ©Stockxpert/Jupiter Images
Ady Gil Boat ©Getty Images
Ady Gil Video: Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research
