Further to the story about how much energy big Internet services use, Silicon Valley newsbreaker TechCrunch has uncovered how Google is finding novel ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Believe it or not, but Google have rented a heard of goats to cut the grass around their HQ:

Here is a picture of a goat, for visual appeal…

They’re renting the goats on a weekly basis. Apparently what happens is that a sheperd turns up with about 200 hoofed friends, who then chomp down and, erm, fertilise, as I think they call it.

Sounds like a good way to reduced CO2 emissions to me. Although not so good for gardeners and lawn mower manufacturers…