According to its own page, Facebook is celebrating its 7th birthday today. Seven years-old! Isn't that, like, half the age of Facebook's founder? Just teasing, Mark.

Facebook's stats page gives us an idea of just how far the company has come: Read more >

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Since we started our campaign in February 2010, over 600,000 Greenpeace supporters like you have called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centres. Thank you.

Just last week, I met with Randi Zuckerberg,... Read more >

How green is Facebook and Microsoft's push into cloud computing? That's the question posed this week by MediaShift editor and climate blogger Corbin Hiar in an online article that unpacks Greenpeace's ongoing debate with Facebook and the rest of the... Read more >

Cisco is turning the climate crisis into an opportunity. As the reigning champ of our Cool IT Leaderboard, the company has shown that investing in innovative product solutions not only has business potential, but can help to slow emissions and thus ad... Read more >

Ericsson, which ranked second on the newly released Cool IT Leaderboard, has played an important role in bringing awareness of IT climate solutions to the negotiations in Cancun. In the lead-up to the climate conference, Ericsson exerted significant l... Read more >

This is the first posting of an interview series with representatives of global IT brands, who are in Cancun this week at COP16, the international climate conference. I’m talking with them to find out what’s on the agenda while they’re here, what they... Read more >

Today at the climate negotiations in Cancun we released the fourth version of the COOL IT Leaderboard, which awards top marks to Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu. Cisco holds onto the highest rank for its commitment to building climate solutions, such as r... Read more >

Countries of the world have converged once again to negotiate a new global deal to tackle climate change, one that will build on the Kyoto Protocol, whose emission reduction commitments expire at the end of 2012.  Inability to reach a legally bindin... Read more >

The Cool IT team is in Cancun this week at the International Climate Change Conference (COP16), where delegates are deep in the weeds of a global policy debate on how to cut carbon emissions. While countries are striking deals and working out differ... Read more >

In response to Facebook’s announcement that it is breaking ground on a new data center near Forest City, North Carolina, Greenpeace energy campaigner Gary Cook issued the following statement:

“Greenpeace and over half a million Facebook users (1) hav... Read more >

Facebook launched an official "Green" page yesterday, highlighting what they're doing to be greener - from energy efficiency measures in their data centres, to auto/dual flush toilets in their offices.

Those efforts are all good, but we expect bett... Read more >

In California, we are one week away from a vote that threatens to stunt innovation, kill thousands of jobs, reject billions of investment dollars, and paralyze the eighth largest economy in the world in its attempt to shift to clean energy.

Yet, Silico... Read more >

Eight of the top ten ranked US companies are technology companies. Greenpeace, of course, publishes our own regular... Read more >

Google and Sony stand out today for a promising display of climate advocacy. The two Cool IT Leaderboard companies have signed onto a declaration calling on the European Union to set a 30% greenhouse gas reduction target.

The joint declaration bears th... Read more >

This morning Cisco released a videoconferencing tool for consumers, adding to a suite of  technological offerings that have the potential to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions.

The idea is that, at the right price-point, people will use tel... Read more >