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How Clean is your Cloud - Apple responds

Blog entry by Gary Cook | 18 April, 2012

Our new report “ How Clean is Your Cloud ” is out today - to show that the massive increase in Internet use is mainly being powered by dirty energy. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all score badly in the report for relying on dirty coal...

Apple should join North Carolinians and tell Duke to quit coal

Blog entry by Emily Euchner | 12 July, 2012 1 comment

Throughout high school, I swam in Mountain Island Lake and the Catawba River every summer. It was only within the last year, after I graduated just a few miles from there, that I learned what a risk I had been taking with those...

Apple states bold coal-free ambition for iCloud, now must explain how it will get there

Blog entry by Gary Cook | 23 May, 2012

Apple has made a bold claim to make all three of its data centres “coal free” and has doubled the amount of solar energy powering its data centre in North Carolina. Apple’s customers certainly appreciate boldness, and will love the...

Apple can be an environmental leader again

Blog entry by Renee Blanchard | 9 May, 2012 1 comment

The very first campaign I worked on when I arrived at Greenpeace in 2006 was the Green My Apple campaign. It was exciting and different, and as someone who has proudly held on to her iMac G3 (Bondi Blue I might add) to this very day, I...

The Dirty Data Triangle of North Carolina

Blog entry by Jodie Van Horn | 28 April, 2011 2 comments

Our new report, How Dirty Is Your Data? , hones in on one U.S. state that is quickly becoming a dirty data epicenter. Facebook, Google, and Apple have all chosen North Carolina as the location for new data center infrastructure...

Electronics companies can lead the way on clean energy - if you push them

Blog entry by Casey Harrell | 19 November, 2012 15 comments

Every day, you rely on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet to be more productive, or just to have fun. Gadgets can make our lives better, but the rate at which we collectively purchase and discard them is having a serious impact on...

Does Apple’s commitment to a 'coal free' iCloud have a passport?

Blog entry by David Pomerantz | 18 December, 2012 3 comments

Apple promised in May – thanks in part to pressure from its customers and Greenpeace supporters – that all of its data centres would become “coal-free” and powered by 100% renewable energy. However, rumours are circulating about a...

Electronics companies can lead the way on clean energy - if you push them

Blog entry by Casey Harrell | 19 November, 2012 1 comment

Every day, you rely on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet to be more productive, or just to have fun. Gadgets can make our lives better, but the rate at which we collectively purchase and discard them is having a serious impact on...

Apple: Think Different about your dirty energy

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 25 April, 2012

The Internet and social media are extraordinary engines of change helping to drive revolutions and positive social change. They’ve become central tools for how we bring pressure on polluters and governments. But if we are not...

Greenpeace ‘cleaning crews’ take message to Apple stores around the world

Blog entry by Kat Clark | 27 April, 2012

Activists in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Hungary, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States visited iconic Apple stores this week to ask the company to ‘clean our cloud’. Greenpeace ‘cleaning crews’ arrived with...

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