Dell Offers Virtual Saplings For Earth Day

theodp writes "The expansion of Dell's Plant a Tree for Me program into Second Life has the Silicon Valley Sleuth wondering if this represents a new low in Earth Day marketing tie-ins. You may wonder, too, after reading Dell's invitation to its Earth Day Party at Dell Island in SL ('get your own tree sapling to plant in Second Life!')."

How about...

[Anonymous Coward]

...I get some chains and tie my Second Life avatar to some trees in the virtual forest?

Ahh ...

[kitzilla]

... I can smell the virtual fresh air already.

Re:Call it a "new low" if you will...

[chromatic]

For Dell's environmental initiatives to make any difference in the real world, people need to get involved. That takes publicity and advertising.

Wow, that really raised my awareness of the value of raising awareness! I'm nominating your post for the 2007 Awareness awards.

What's the bet that...

[femto]

the energy used to run the servers to render a virtual tree is about equivalent to burning a real tree?

lmbo

[kakofb]

The trees might offset the enormous amounts of methane generated from fat nerds farting and burping in second life.

First virtual tree post

[mobby_6kl]

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Viewed from above of course. There, I feel better already. Gotta go now, I wanted to take my humvee for an offroad drive today.