Tag: GREENPEACE

According to officials at Greenpeace, Facebook needs to change its environmentally unfriendly ways. As the AP reports, more than 500,000 users have joined Greenpeace-sponsored groups calling for the social network to use renewable energy to power its new U.S. data center. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reminding him that ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite promising prospects, music streaming site Lala failed to carve a successful niche in its highly competitive market. Apple recently absorbed the struggling site and will officially, and permanently, close Lala's doors May 31st. The news isn't all bad, though, as subscribers will be still able to listen to tunes until that ...

Share After a Greenpeace report accused Nestle of importing palm oil from suppliers who are destroying the Indonesian rainforests that are home to endangered orangutans, a bevy of angry consumers flocked to the candy maker's Facebook page. Apparently dissatisfied with Nestle's tepid public defense of its palm oil policy, environmentally conscious users flooded the page with vitriolic comments ...

Just when Apple has started to make some friends at Greenpeace, it looks like another one of its fine products might be a wee bit toxic. According to the French newspaper Liberation, that mysterious stench emanating from your Mac Pro contains benzene -- which can irritate the eyes, skin and respiratory tract. Instead of being a mere inconvenience, that smell could be a cloud of poison gas that ...

Apple has been embroiled in a PR battle with Greenpeace over the past year or so. The computer and gadget manufacturer is trying to establish its "green" cred to keep its often eco-minded fans happy. Greenpeace, meanwhile, has been pushing for more, taking the company to task for a number of eco-shortcomings. Now, in a bid for getting greener, Apple is ramping up its recycling programs, ...

Calling all gamers: Greenpeace needs you. That is, if you care at all about your planet. Greenpeace, the militant pro-Earth, anti-pollution organization, wants gamers to help it pressure console makers in to making the gaming industry's manufacturing process and products less toxic to the environment. Greenpeace says that console makers are lagging far behind PC and cell phone makers in the race ...

Greenpeace has been making a lot of noise lately with its attacks on Apple for using nasty stuff in the iPhone and in general for not being very green. Apple is implementing plans for getting greener, and now it seems Greenpeace is moving on to, well, greener pastures, attacking a whole boatload of tech companies with its latest Guide to Greener Electronics. The guide rates electronics ...

Yesterday's story on Greenpeace calling out Apple regarding the nasty (as in toxic) innards of the iPhone has caused quite a stir. Apple was compelled to respond, reminding readers that their recent "greener Apple" pledge was an initiative not set to be fully put into motion until the end of 2008. Given that we haven't even hit the end of 2007 yet, Jobs & Co. are asking for a bit of patience ...

Back in May, Apple head Steve Jobs pledged that his company would become greener and that it would out-pace the competition when it came to removing toxic chemicals from the production of its devices. This was largely seen as a response to a Greenpeace-led campaign, which exposed the environmentally harmful nasties used in the production of Apple products and which named Apple one of the top ...