Here is a short piece I heard this morning on MPR that talks about environmental initiatives at Google which include buying wind energy.  Listen to the audio at the link below for more detail and for a discussion as to why Google would do this.  Mainly it boils down to making business sense in that some customers will use Google primarily because they are doing things like this…or at least that is the opinion of the person from CNET that is being interviewed.

Interesting to see companies enter “non-traditional” areas like this I think.

Most news from Google involves stuff like search ads, web services, mobile computing. The occasional Buzz or Wave, perhaps, that is a little confusing. But at the very least, no matter what Google does, it always involves a computer in some way. Well, not any more. Google has begun investing in wind power. This week, Google agreed to buy 114 megawatts of electricity from an Iowa wind farm.

via Why is Google buying wind energy? | Episodes | Future Tense with John Moe | American Public Media.