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Posted by Diane McClamroch, Food
Services Team

Today at our Mountain View headquarters we're celebrating the
one-year anniversary of an important project: our organic garden.
Not only does it provide a stunning centerpiece for the central
campus; it yields produce and herbs that are used daily in the
cafes on campus. Although many Googlers would like to think of
themselves as href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/googlers and culture" >
Renaissance men and women, a green thumb didn't exactly
come as easily to some as href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1116&dep_id=1056" >
C development might. Fortunately, the garden wasn't just
an ambitious 20% project but rather, an initiative that we took on
with the partnership of href="http://www.thegrowingconnection.org/" >The Growing
Connection.

The Growing Connection is a grassroots project of the href="http://www.fao.org/" >UN's Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO). The work of the Growing Connection
originates with a humble earth
box, a patented growing system that helps growers to cultivate
produce with limited space and water. The project really has two
parts: teaching people around the world, especially kids, how to
cultivate their own food, and giving them a hands-on lesson in
nutrition. The latter entails connecting growers so that kids
growing corn on rooftops in Harlem can share their experiences with
students planting earth boxes in Ghana.

To earmark today's anniversary, we had a little get-together at
the Googleplex, complete with cucumber and lemon verbena infused
waters, organic snacks and a few words from Robert Patterson,
Senior Liaison Officer at FAO. "Like Google, Growing
Connections combines growth and information," he observes.
"So coming to Google has been a natural fit. We work from kids
from all over–Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United
States. They learn to like each other through food and realize that
they're part of an actual solution for hunger and
poverty."

Check out today's photo album:

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Welcome to Google Sightseeing Reader Takeover Week!
Every day this week, one of you has been chosen to have their very
own sight posted here on GSS, while Alex and James take a well
deserved holiday. Today’s sight is from Jerome - so have fun, play
nice, and we’ll see you next week!

The name pretty much gives what it is away -
Stone Mountain is the largest exposed mass of granite in the
world (a mountain made of stone, haha). Formed over 300 million
years ago by emerging magma from the earth’s crust, Stone Mountain
is composed mainly of granite which is visible from miles
around.

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Apart from the geology aspect of it, Stone Mountain also boasts
a
bas-relief on the side depicting three figures of the short
lived Confederate States of America - carved in 1909. Nowadays, a
park exists encircling the mountain and the top of the mountain can
be accessed by a 1.3 mile (about 2.1 km) hiking trail, or by taking
a ride on the Skyride, an aerial tramway. Either way, the top
provides a great view of the Atlanta skyline and surrounding
suburbs. Last but not least, every week they hold the “world’s
largest” 40 minute laser show near the carving.

An interesting note is that if you look at it in Google Maps,
you can zoom out quite a bit and still notice the huge rock as a
small whitish speck.

Find out a lot more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain this huge piece
of granite at Wikipedia or http://www.stonemountainpark.com/ visit the official
site.

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