Eco Chat in VW

Quick chat environment I threw together this morning as an experiment for our eco site, Big Green Switch. Took about an hour to decorate and get up on the site.

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I love this. Anyone can have a swift immersive chat environment in no time at all. Talk about catering for the long-tail, let's just hope everyone doesn't arrive at different times and it's empty (ah, there is the rub, stickiness).

I can see a few of our sites ending up with stuff like this, especially while it's hot and free. Not just jumping on the bandwagon either, but actually providing a user service (if anyone uses it other than curious SLrs). It'll be going up on the site tomorrow and it'll be interesting what, if any, traffic starts to show up. The hardest part for me was getting that BGS logo to sit properly in that frame...

Some folks, for no good reason, seem to be having trouble logging in with their Gmail accounts. I'm fine, but Steve & Sianos just can't log in, it say's 'joining room' forever, no matter what machine they are on. I'm told making the client.exe to be excluded from DEP made the thing work on a mates Vista pc (system->performance options->data execution prevention...) but that doesn't explain why I can login fine on this machine and they can't. Enquiring minds want to know. /shrugs

Hmm, couldn't help noticing the top listings in the All Rooms>High Occupancy areas are sex,סקס,ישראלי, and SEX, though. Deja vue?

Big Green Shop

Well, all that scrubbing around with vendors and slave-driving of friends paid off today. Big Green Switch is now in SL! :-)

We've just spent a month building content for a kinda Big Green Switch treehouse 'eco-emporium' (good name Steve).

We've stuff from cool sculptie recycling bins and sun-trackin' solar lights through to wind speed tracking wind turbines and even full eco-homes! Check out the 15 bespoke flowers from Soliel Snook, like, seriously nice work. We're near ABs plot at Gourdneck (yup, that's mainland), and we've tonnes of environmentally-friendly products and gadgets to be picked up for free by any hardy SL bod who happens by.

Each freebie has info and links about how it can be of environmental benefit back in the real world. Basically, residents are encouraged to take the stuff and spread it throughout our humble little virtual world, at the same time spreading the message about smarter, greener living. That's the plan at any rate.

As well as the eco-freebies we're giving away, we're also offering SL residents the ability to carbon offset their Avatar’s (or their sims) carbon footprint. Sweet :-)

Here's how it works - a SL user purchases our set of 10 swanky and exclusive (Carricre 'Wood Wizard' Wind) trees for L$3000, then 100% of that money goes into the dedicated Big Green Switch offsetting fund. Periodically, the fund is converted into UK Sterling then invested in tree planting schemes via the UK's Tree Appeal organization. SL land owners can also carbon offset their sim, for a measly L$1000 for 12 months. Bargain :-)

So join us at our BGS treehouse eco-boutique [SLURL] and come bag some quality freebies.