I’m all for protecting the planet and I’ll even put my shopping in those green canvas bags instead of clogging our environment with more plastic bags. But sometimes commercial groups take their eco-messages one step closer to the ridiculous. I read this week that the new Playtech powered Casino del Rio has announced that it is to become the world’s first ecological casino. According to one article, “Casino Del Rio tries to protect the environment by balancing the CO2 emission so they introduced eco-friendly features that will contribute to achieve the goal of reaching a 100% carbon-neutral status that they adopted. The design features used for the entire online casino help monitor energy-wastage but first of all Casino Del Rio promised to plant one tree for every new casino player.” Um. Ok. Apparently, the casino is also in partnership with a group called New Green Group which promotes and supports environmental activities. Is it only me or is this concept a little bit OTT?
A couple of green jokes to get us going for the day:
- 17 trees are saved by every ton of existing paper recycled. That means if we pulped every Harry Potter book we wouldn’t be able to see the sky for foliage.
- Tom Cruise is set to sign up to a new, high tech, eco thriller called Mission Compostable.
- Is a vegetarian allowed to eat animal crackers?
- And finally a quote by Jay Leno – “They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hilary Clinton may actually thaw out.”