Comments on: Google Rents Goats to Mow Office Lawn http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/ Workplace Design and Technology, Office Space and CoWorking Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RC http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1180 RC Thu, 14 May 2009 19:24:29 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1180 Seattle has been using goats for a couple of years now http://www.seattlepi.com/local/286630_goats27.html .. University of Washington and Seattle City Light hired herds to clear slopes of blackberry brambles in 2007..last weekend we had a goat party in our Cul-de-sac in Issaquah neighbourhood ..no we didnt eat them we watched them eat blackberry bushes while eating vegetarian hotdogs :-) My mom's insight (who is in India and has first hand experience of goats chewing up her prized rose bushes) is that its a sound idea since the sides of rose bush eaten by a goat takes a very long time to grow back if they do at all... Seattle has been using goats for a couple of years now http://www.seattlepi.com/local/286630_goats27.html ..
University of Washington and Seattle City Light hired herds to clear slopes of blackberry brambles in 2007..last weekend we had a goat party in our Cul-de-sac in Issaquah neighbourhood ..no we didnt eat them we watched them eat blackberry bushes while eating vegetarian hotdogs :-)

My mom’s insight (who is in India and has first hand experience of goats chewing up her prized rose bushes) is that its a sound idea since the sides of rose bush eaten by a goat takes a very long time to grow back if they do at all…

]]> By: Melissa http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1086 Melissa Fri, 08 May 2009 18:59:47 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1086 Hahaha! I love it!!! I always tell my husband I would love to have goats - now I could tell him feeding them could support a business! To you nay-sayers - Bah-humbug! It will use less water to let the goats drink than it would to water properties like most landscapers do for a large company. Obviously the goats would be appropriate for very specific types of areas in need of "mowing," and the farms the produce excess waste and pollution are farms that contain animals in crowded and inhumane conditions and in which the animals are fed unnatural concoctions as an excuse for their diet. Go Google! Love the creativity! Hahaha! I love it!!! I always tell my husband I would love to have goats – now I could tell him feeding them could support a business! To you nay-sayers – Bah-humbug! It will use less water to let the goats drink than it would to water properties like most landscapers do for a large company. Obviously the goats would be appropriate for very specific types of areas in need of “mowing,” and the farms the produce excess waste and pollution are farms that contain animals in crowded and inhumane conditions and in which the animals are fed unnatural concoctions as an excuse for their diet. Go Google! Love the creativity!

]]> By: Zachary Butterfield http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1061 Zachary Butterfield Wed, 06 May 2009 14:00:57 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1061 Fantastic idea! Hope they're not doing goat cheese "upsells" though. I'll be reading labels closely.............. Fantastic idea!

Hope they’re not doing goat cheese “upsells” though. I’ll be reading labels closely…………..

]]> By: subroto mukherjee http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1055 subroto mukherjee Wed, 06 May 2009 08:30:07 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1055 Not really environmental friendly - short sighted solution. Think of the cascading effect - methane production, water and feed to maintain the goats and the danger of the fad catching on - after all what is good for Google must be good for the rest of the world. We thus bring in more goats and increase the pollution levels and pressure on the local eco system. Finally, in these days of recession - actually deprive people of even these menial jobs !!! Not really environmental friendly – short sighted solution. Think of the cascading effect – methane production, water and feed to maintain the goats and the danger of the fad catching on – after all what is good for Google must be good for the rest of the world.

We thus bring in more goats and increase the pollution levels and pressure on the local eco system. Finally, in these days of recession – actually deprive people of even these menial jobs !!!

]]> By: priyesh http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1054 priyesh Wed, 06 May 2009 08:20:49 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1054 hello and namaste well if you need goats for such activities in india i ensure that i will provide it. in addition to it i must that large scale grazing enhance the desertification in some parts of western rajasthan. so they should be allowed in grazing areas only. Priyesh hello and namaste
well if you need goats for such activities in india i ensure that i will provide it. in addition to it i must that large scale grazing enhance the desertification in some parts of western rajasthan.
so they should be allowed in grazing areas only.
Priyesh

]]> By: Umesh Satija http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1052 Umesh Satija Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:50 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1052 No body worries about being presentable or not if it is "Google" and if it is for a good cause.Ofcourse Great work. No body worries about being presentable or not if it is “Google” and if it is for a good cause.Ofcourse Great work.

]]> By: Jason G. Williscroft http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1045 Jason G. Williscroft Tue, 05 May 2009 20:44:48 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1045 Of course, the goats need to be trucked to and from the location. That generates CO2. Their digestive processes generate lots of methane, which has around 8 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. And the "fertilizer" they generate causes the grass to grow faster, thus requiring more "mowing" than it otherwise would. Leaving aside for a moment the rather significant question of whether anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions even impact global climate at all, it's hard to characterize Google's initiative as anything other than a completely counter-productive publicity stunt. In other words, about par for the course for today's Green movement. Of course, the goats need to be trucked to and from the location. That generates CO2. Their digestive processes generate lots of methane, which has around 8 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. And the “fertilizer” they generate causes the grass to grow faster, thus requiring more “mowing” than it otherwise would.

Leaving aside for a moment the rather significant question of whether anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions even impact global climate at all, it’s hard to characterize Google’s initiative as anything other than a completely counter-productive publicity stunt.

In other words, about par for the course for today’s Green movement.

]]> By: Mark Alexander http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1044 Mark Alexander Tue, 05 May 2009 20:09:46 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1044 Nice - but like SLB says - it sure won't look pretty. It's a rough cut, certainly no nice mower patterns, so - novel - but not presentable. Nice – but like SLB says – it sure won’t look pretty. It’s a rough cut, certainly no nice mower patterns, so – novel – but not presentable.

]]> By: SLB http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1043 SLB Tue, 05 May 2009 19:20:28 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1043 Of course this is not exactly their "lawn". This is a great idea for large open spaces that need to be kept open, but lawns with landscaping, flowers, etc. would not survive a goat mowing very well. Of course this is not exactly their “lawn”. This is a great idea for large open spaces that need to be kept open, but lawns with landscaping, flowers, etc. would not survive a goat mowing very well.

]]> By: Chris Fyvie http://blog.eoffice.net/2009/05/google-rents-goats-to-mow-office-lawn/#comment-1016 Chris Fyvie Mon, 04 May 2009 00:18:54 +0000 http://blog.eoffice.net/?p=758#comment-1016 I heard this idea a few months ago. Leave it to Google to be one of the first to do it! Great work! I heard this idea a few months ago. Leave it to Google to be one of the first to do it! Great work!

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