Greenpeace targets Apple with clean-up campaign
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You mean they aren't made of organic hemp? Apple is a grubby polluter and isn't doing enough to change that, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace.â¦
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Business leaders, consumer groups, and prominent politicians, come together to call for a new environment agency.
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Environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday issued the first quarterly update on the technology industry&#8217;s performance on environmental issues. While the group recognized many companies are improving Apple does not appear to be among them &#8212; Apple remains in last place.
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North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe&#39;s &quot;green funeral&quot; trend makes its way across the Atlantic.
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The software maker launches MSN Green, a site packed with eco-info. It will be interesting to see the appetite is among advertisers and readers.
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Manufacturers, environmental groups unite to educate consumers, increase recycling, and reduce hazardous materials used in mobile phones.
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H-P is funding a project to investigate how electronic waste can be disposed of in a safer and more environmentally friendly way.
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By Duff, Amy  The chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry speaks to Amy Duff  IN JULY, THE chief executives of the "big four" supermarkets were summoned by Defra minister David Miliband and instructed to put their weight behind environmentally-friendly initiatives.
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The group's mandate is to figure out practical ways that customers can cut computing's environmental impact.
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Microsoft Corp's Windows Vista operating system has only been available for a day but it has already made the company some new enemies, with the UK's Green Party and Computer Aid International lining up to voice their environmental concerns about the new operating system.
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New York launches a campaign to encourage people to avoid bottled water, said to harm the environment.
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By Nic Fildes  The drive to make computers more environmentally friendly has been given an extra boost after the technology giants Google and Intel joined the rush to prove their green credentials.   The move was widely welcomed by environmental groups.
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(InfoWorld) - Bad news for environmentally conscious people who want an iPhone: Apple is near the bottom of a new list that rates companies based on their efforts to stop climate change. While it doesn't have quite the cache, Motorola would make a better choice of cell phone if you care about efforts the vendor is making to improve its carbon footprint, according to the Climate Counts list. Motorola got a score of 60, compared to Apple's 2, meaning it has set goals to reduce its energy use and has already succeeded in doing so. The highest score a company can get is 100. Climate Counts, a new nonprofit organization, plans to update the list every year and encourages consumers to base their buying decisions on companies' climate change efforts. The list currently includes 56 companies in a range of industries and scores them based on four criteria: How well the company has measured its climate footprint, reduced its impact on global warming, supports positive climate change legislation, and publicly discloses their climate change actions. Despite recent green initiatives, including building the largest solar installation on any corporate campus in the U.S., Google got a score of 17. Google got poor marks in part for failing to do a good job tracking corporate emissions or reporting on efforts to improve. At the recent launch of an initiative to improve energy efficiency in computer power supplies, a Google executive said that he knew Google's carbon footprint but he declined to share it. Other tech companies that scored poorly include Amazon.com, which got a score of zero, and eBay, which matches Apple with a 2. YahooÂ got a 36, and MicrosoftÂ got a 31. Shoppers can either visit the Climate Counts Web site to check up on companies or they can ask for information about companies via short message from their mobile phones. Consumers can text the message "cc" followed by the company name to 30644 and receive the company's score by return text message. Climate Counts is funded by Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company, and is a collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit that promotes ways to slow global warming. GreenOrder, a company that advises businesses on sustainability and corporate responsibility issues, verified the scoring results for accuracy. Requests for comment to Apple, Amazon.com, and Google about their scores were not immediately returned.
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The recent scares over deadly bacteria in California produce might hurt farm programs aimed at restoring wildlife habitat and cutting water pollution.  Such environmental programs could be at odds with "clean- farming" techniques promoted by food processors.
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UK watchdog the Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that Apple is ripping off its UK customers. The investigation follows a complaint that UK customers were having to shell out more for the reassuringly
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Internet-age technology giants on Tuesday joined environmentalists in a campaign to dramatically cut the amount of electricity wasted by computers.
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Science & environment: A nationwide clean-up of Britain's beaches is under way this weekend amid growing concern over  the threat from  litter to fish, birds, reptiles and marine mammals.