With Apple Blossom Weekend fast approaching you will appreciate this little bit from Greenpeace Canada applauding slightly greener Apples.
fans have greeted our campaign to make Apple a green leader. They’ve
made clear what they want– an Apple which isn’t just skin-deep green,
but green to the core. One that creates products free from the most
hazardous chemicals, that they can buy and return with a clear
conscience, secure in the knowledge that Apple will re-use or recycle
them responsibly, and that won’t end up in scrapyards or add to the
mountains of e-waste that the electronics industry has created.
Apple
must begin to address these growing problems to ensure that the workers
and children of Asia and many developing nations no longer face the
unnecessary environmental and health dangers posed by the high-tech
industry’s waste.
You will be happy to know that none of our machines are Apples as you will see that Apple is way behind on the “going green” scale. It is last on the Greenpeace list in both 2006 and 2007 rankings.
Perhaps Al Gore has been pressing Steve Jobs on this issue as it can’t look good for him, can it?
We looked in on Greenpeace to see if there was any response to the NCPPR transparency challenge.
National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace
and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006
donations exceeding $50,000. If it does so, The National Center for
Public Policy Research will do the same. … We’re
making this challenge in light of allegations in Greenpeace’s May 17
report, “ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial
Industry,” which suggests that it is improper for 41 groups, including
The National Center for Public Policy Research, to accept contributions
from ExxonMobil because the positions of at least some of them on
climate issues is not precisely in accordance with those of Greenpeace.
Most of the groups singled out for criticism in the Greenpeace report
work on a wide variety of public policy issues. For most of the
groups, climate policy is just a small fraction of their portfolio.
Greenpeace - perhaps based on its own behavior - assumes that donations
influence the stands groups such as ours take. They do not. So that
the public can judge for themselves, we’re challenging Greenpeace to
complete transparency through disclosure of major gifts. … Greenpeace
has profited more from corporate largesse than The National Center for
Public Policy Research and similar groups ever will.
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