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Greenpeace Trying to Clean up the Gaming Industry

by Terrence O'Brien on December 13, 2007 at 10:40 AM

Greenpeace Trying to Clean up the Gaming Industry
Calling all gamers: Greenpeace needs you. That is, if you care at all about your planet. Greenpeace, the militant pro-Earth, anti-pollution organization, wants gamers to help it pressure console makers in to making the gaming industry's manufacturing process and products less toxic to the environment.

Greenpeace says that console makers are lagging far behind PC and cell phone makers in the race to clean up their operations. The organization released a 90-second video featuring the stars of the big three -- Microsoft's Master Chief (from Halo), Nintendo's Mario, and Sony's Kratos (From God of War) -- competing to become the greenest console.

Greenpeace wasn't clear about what exactly it expected gamers to do, but we imagine letter writing and a YouTube video campaign could garner some level of success. So get to it, gamers. We already get lead poisoning from our children's toys -- lets keep it out of our PlayStations.

From the BBC

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Tags: environment, green, greenpeace, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, sony, wii, xbox

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