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.

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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.

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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 >

Readers of this blog know the campaign to get Facebook to Unfriend Coal.  Since we first asked Facebook to power its services with renewable power in 2010, over 700,000 Greenpeace supporters have joined us. This campaign is about the choice we have ... Read more >

Since the beginning of 2010, we’ve watched Google turn into an increasingly regular investor in renewable energy technologies. This month alone, the search giant has had three major announcements that will lead to more clean megawatts on the grid.

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The switch has been flipped on Facebook’s first owned and operated data center.  As of today, Prineville, Oregon, is home to millions of Facebook status updates, photos and videos. All that data is stored in a 300,000 squa... Read more >

From Dublin to Palo Alto via Milan, Colombia, and London, with world records and airships, in English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese, Facebook got a clear message this week, delivered in many ways – it's time the world’s largest social networking site c... Read more >

Right now a Guinness World Record attempt is underway, and you too can make your mark on history. For the next 24 hours, the Facebook ‘Unfriend Coal’ Campaign is taking aim at the record for most Facebook comments within a 24-hour period. Click here... Read more >