Big Green Switch Freebie Shop

"There is a need to look at the way we live our lives. Scientific evidence says that our planet is in grave danger. Not only have we filled the atmosphere with harmful gases, but we are in the process of exhausting all the natural resources that people have taken for granted for so long. The planet has changed naturally anyway throughout the decades and, according to the bulk of scientific opinion, the human race may be adding to the destruction of the planet by its carbon emissions and other behaviour." Says Nikk Huet (Nikk edited my original text as I do not agree that carbon causes any harm to the planet and any changes to climate etc. are completely natural. In my opinion the whole carbon theory is a scam to extract money and control the population, although I do agree that we need a reliable source of renewable energy such as the latest technology with nuclear power or wave power, before the EU puts our lights out altogether as they would like to! Janey Bracken).

Whether this is a fact or not is probably still open to debate, but I think everyone would agree that it is a good idea to be kind to nature and take as little as possible from the planet and replenish any materials that are used. There is definitely a feeling of satisfaction as well, in the fact that you can supply your everyday needs naturally if you put a little thought into how you go about things.

Well help is at hand, Sianos Writer and Nikk Huet have a long standing and award winning website, as well as a big chunk of mainland grid in Second Life, called the ‘Big Green Switch’. This comprehensive resorce gives you all the advice you need in respect of living a ‘green’ life and offsetting your carbon footprint.

Good news for SL Kensington, they have opened a Big Green Switch freebie shop below the DM&GT building where Nikk, Hibiscus and I have our offices.

Here you can get (literally) everything you want for an environmentally friendly SL home, including top notch free echo houses and color change modern furniture.

You can even offset your avatar’s carbon footprint, so you can be completely guilt free in respect of your Second Life, buy paying the guys from BGS to plant real world trees for you through thir association with the UK's Tree Appeal organisation. Here's how it works - a SL user purchases a set of 10 beautiful exclusive trees for L$3000 and 100% of the money goes into our dedicated Big Green Switch offsetting fund. Periodically, the fund is converted into UK Sterling and invested in tree planting schemes (as I say, via the UK's Tree Appeal organisation). SL land owners can also carbon offset their sim for a further L$1000.



The shop is well worth a look, the freebies are of a damn high quality, as you can relate all the SL freebies into things you should really be doing in real life, therefore making sure you are being kind to the environment in which you live.