Tag archive: Greenpeace

Greenpeace has released a 35-page report detailing the environmental impacts of various data centers around the country, including those of Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple. The report, titled How Dirty is Your Data?, takes a look at the footprint that companies are leaving due to the massive amounts of energy they need to power their products and respond to the ever-increasing data demands from their customers. “We expect these… Read More

Your tweets, Facebook photos and online documents are going up in smoke. Literally, says Greenpeace. According to the organization’s “Make IT Green” report, the server farms and data centers that drive cloud-based services along with telecom infrastructure, PCs and peripherals, accounted for over 830 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2007.

Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has released the 14th update to its Guide to Greener Electronics, in which it ranks major electronics and computer manufacturers in a set of environmentally-related criteria, including the sorts of toxic chemicals that turn up in their products, how the companies handle e-waste and product recycling, and the companies' plans to green up their operations. In the past, Greenpeace has slammed consumer… Read More

Earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard employees received a surprise – every one of them received a voicemail from actor William Shatner, best known for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. "This is William Shatner speaking," it said in part. "You, HP, promised me a toxic-free computer by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I'll have to wait till 2011. What's up with that?" It’s all… Read More

Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has released the latest update to its Guide to Greener Electronics, highlighting how major consumer electronics manufacturers are working to reduce and eliminate toxic substances and chemicals from their offerings. And while previous editions of the Greenpeace guide have picked on media darling Apple, the latest edition shifts PC makers Lenovo, HP, and Dell towards the red end of the scale for failing… Read More

Despite a new ad campaign touting the recyclable nature and energy-efficient properties of its MacBooks, Apple has still slipped to competitors on the list of green electronics manufacturers published by the environmental group Greenpeace. The latest list ranked Apple below 13 other manufacturers including HP, Sony, Panasonic, Motorola, and class leader Nokia. According to Greenpeace, Apple has made a number of positive changes including… Read More

Apple has changed its iPods and Greenpeace couldn’t be happier. The environmental organization has come out with praise for Apple as it’s eliminated PVC and BVRs – brominated flame retardants – from the new models announced this week. "Greenpeace believes that the latest-generation iPods are significantly less toxic than before," it said in a statement. "Further, it shows – once again –… Read More

It’s not easy being green, but these days it’s important. That’s why the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is important. It ranks 18 electronics companies each quarter on the “greenness” of their products and production process. Now Greenpeace has brought in new guidelines, and as a result, most companies have seen their rankings fall, but none more so than Nintendo, which scored below all others in the… Read More

In recent years, environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has had some success shaming major electronics manufacturers into adopting—at least on the surface—more environmentally-friendly policies by ranking technology companies in terms of their manufacturing techniques and recycling programs, along with other factors. While companies like Nokia and Lenovo have received some limited praise from Greenpeace, media darling… Read More

In a new report, environmental activist group Greenpeace has ranked Chinese computer maker Lenovo as the most eco-friendly company in the technology industry, with the company leaping from near the bottom of the organization's rankings to the top. And what about media darling Apple? Greenpeace still gives the Cupertino computer and consumer electronics maker extremely low marks. Greenpeace's study examines how large electronics… Read More

Environmental watchdog and activism group Greenpeace has updated its report card on the manufacturing and recycling practices of computer and mobile manufacturers. Greenpeace ranks companies' policies and processes on two interrelated criteria: action taken to remove hazardous chemicals and materials from their products, and their efforts to recycle and take back products once they become obsolete. At the top of Greenpeace's… Read More

A new study conducted by Ipsos-Mori (PDF) on behalf of Greenpeace International of consumers in nine countries finds consumers are generally willing to pay more for an environmentally-friendly PC, as opposed to a less-expensive machine containing more toxic chemicals and other components which end up as hazardous waste. For the survey, Ipsos Mori interviewed roughly 1,000 people in each of nine countries (India, Great Britain, Thailand,… Read More