Feature story - February 13, 2007
All the popular people get lots of mail on Valentine's Day. But Apple boss Steve Jobs has been getting messages for a while from Apple fans asking for a green Apple. Now news reaches us that Steve may just be considering sending a little green love back.
A tasty message of green love left in a Apple store in Amsterdam.
Apple's products contain toxic chemicals and they don't have a
globalrecycling policy. While other competitors like Dell and HP
have started to cleanup their act, Apple has not been showing much
love for the Earth.
However today's hot news on the green gossip grapevine is that
SteveJobsmet this week with a Social Responsibility Fund Investor
to discussApple's environment record. Like all good gossip,
exactdetails remain secret. But the very fact that our main man
Steve had a'green' meeting shows that your messages for a greener
Apple aregetting through.
There's nothing public yet from Apple so you need to keep asking
for a greener
Apple. But Dutch Apple Spokesperson Juriaan Bosman may also
havebeen dropping a hint when he recently said:
"We are sticking to our strategy, butwe don't rule out that at some moment our strategy will synchronisewith what Greenpeace wants"
(Bright Magazine, Feb/March 2007)
Will Steve make some minor improvements just to try and keep up
with
HPand Dell, or amaze us and make Apple the green leader? That
all dependson how much desire for a greener Apple you spread.
So spread the love!
Love isn't just for Valentines Day. That's our story and we're
stickingto it as we present you with our somewhat tardy Valentine's
Day AppleE-Card. Send it to all those Apple Lovers in your address
book andspread the green love: no matter what day it is.
Our volunteers have been out at Apple stores in the Netherlands,
Denmark,
Finland,
Sweden and
Norway to hand out free organic green apples to spread the
word.
Other Mac fans have been showing how much they desire a green
Apple by giving their Mac a hug:
Since all Valentine's messages end with a wish, here's how Steve
canfulfil the wishes of thousands of Mac fans for a greener
Apple:
- All newApple product ranges to be free from the worst toxic
chemicals.
- Providea global take back and reuse/recycling service for all
Apple products,irrespective of where they are sold.
Come on Steve, make all our greenApple wishes come true.