Popular search engine Google celebrated World Earth Day 2013 on April 22
with an interesting and interacting 3D doodle which intends creating
awareness against a common enemy called “climate change”.
Earth Day 2013
aims to raise awareness among the people on global warming and provides
solutions to the people to counter climate change.
On Monday visitors to the Google search page were greeted with the
doodle which has a play button that can play-pause the sun or moon in
four different images depicting the four seasons of autumn, winter,
spring and summer. By clicking the play button one can see the moon in
its crescent, half, full and gibbous phases.
The animated doodle with the word Google drawn through a landscape also
has animals that emerge by clicking the button and that includes a bear,
a badger, fish, ants, birds and fireflies. Rain, snow and wind can also
be experienced. A row of dandelions on the left is shaped like a “G”,
then two caves each depicting an “o”, again a “G” in the form of a lake,
a tree symbolizes the “L” and a stream from the lake shaped like an
“E”.
Once the play button is hit, the sun starts moving to the west to set
and it coincides with rising of the moon. As night turns into day the
seasons too change. If the clouds are clicked it starts to rain and if
the clouds are clicked during winter it starts to snow. One can make the
wind blow, make a bear or badger come out of the cave, see a moving
colony of ants or enjoy birds in flight.
This is the 13th Google doodle to celebrate Earth Day since it was
launched forty three years ago. Each year the Earth Day is celebrated on
April 22 to mark the anniversary of the birth of modern environment
movement in 1970. It was the idea of the then US senator from Wisconsin,
Gaylord Nelson after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil
spill at Santa Barbara.
He then designed a movement to create consciousness about air and water
pollution which aimed at catapulting environmental protection on the
political agenda. It produced results and on April 22 the next year
about 20 million Americans took to the streets to demonstrate for a
healthy sustainable environment.
In 1990 Earth Day went global mobilizing 200 million people from 191
countries and paved the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit at
Rio de Janeiro and Mr. Nelson was honoured by the US president Bill
Clinton in 1995 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest
civilian award in the US for his role as Earth Day founder.