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 was part of mak... Read more >

How does Apple’s $1billion iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina draw its power?

Apple is sending millions of dollars a year to Duke Energy, one of the few utilities in the US that is still building coal plants.  

By making a substantial investment i... Read more >

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 and dangerous nuclea... Read more >

Every day, our lives revolve more and more around the phenomenon that is “the cloud.” We check our e-mail, store our music, and share photos and status updates. It’s a key part of how we connect with our friends and family.

But have you ever stoppe... Read more >

Apple's "iCloud" is making lots of headlines this week, first with new details of renewable energy investment attached to the company's massive "iCloud" data center in North Carolina, followed a day later by news that Apple has bought land next door t... Read more >

We recently launched the 17th edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics, which has in the 6 years of its existence, become the ultimate scorecard for ranking consumer electronics companies on their efforts to improve their environmental impact.

On ... Read more >

Today the tech and business media are all a-twitter about Facebook, after news that company will start constructing its first datacentre outside the United States, close to the Arctic Circle, in Luleå, Sweden.

By locating the datacentre in Luleå, ... Read more >

Like many people, I heard the sad news of the passing of Steve Jobs first thing this morning, shouted up the stairs before I was properly awake. My first thought was the sadness of the news, then about the legacy left by Steve Jobs. While for many, hi... Read more >

Today Google has finally released information on exactly how much energy it takes to provide searches, email, youtube videos and all other Google services. For years Google has claimed this information was a “trade secret”, despite many competitors ha... Read more >

On Monday Steve Jobs announced Apple's latest offering, "the new way to store and access your content" no less. The company's new service, iCloud, may be an ambitious step forward for Apple in computing terms, but look closer and you'll find that it... Read more >

A Greenpeace India report just published – "Dirty Talking – Case for telcom industry to shift from diesel to renewable" – highlights the damaging effects of diesel generators on India's economy and environment and calls on Bharti-Airtel – the coun... Read more >

A journalist recently pointed out that if the tech sector were to adopt a color it would be green. He's right: the tech sector has made sustainability one of its main talking points. And you would think that the desire to geek out on things like "ef... Read more >

The Facebook: Unfriend Coal campaign, much like the company at the center of it, has quickly spread across the globe. Perhaps this is because so many young people, early adopters of the platform and avid social networkers, also care deeply about the e... Read more >

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 because the utility has ... Read more >

No, obviously we do not. But that was an assumption made last week by some bloggers who covered our report, How Dirty Is Your Data?, which called out a number of top cloud computing companies that have fast-growing electricity needs for their lack of ... Read more >