Tag: Apple

This Is the Carbon Footprint of Your Internet Activity

Data centres processing and storing the world's data already use around 1% of the electricity we generate, according to the IEA. Computing is expected to account for up to 8% of...

Your Favorite Playlist Has a Carbon Footprint

You would think streaming music is more eco-friendly than CDs, tapes and records, right? Afterall, there’s no waste. A new study by the Universities of Glasglow and Oslo calculated the carbon footprint...

Apple Quadruples Recycling Points for Old iPhones

Apple has quadrupled the number of locations customers can send their old iPhone to be disassembled by its recycling robots. Customers can return their obsolete and damaged devices to Best Buy stores throughout...

Facebook Joins 100% Renewable Energy Revolution

Facebook announced Tuesday it will slash greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent and transition global operations to 100 percent renewable energy by the end of 2020 in efforts to "help fight climate...

Deluge of Electronic Waste Turning Thailand into ‘World’s Rubbish Dump’

At a deserted factory outside Bangkok, skyscrapers made from vast blocks of crushed printers, Xbox components and TVs tower over black rivers of smashed-up computer screens. This is a tiny fraction of the...

Apple Now Globally Powered by 100% Renewables

In its continued efforts to "combat climate change and create a healthier environment," Apple announced Monday that its global facilities are now powered with 100 percent clean energy. All of the tech giant's...

100 Major Companies Have Officially Pledged To Switch To 100% Renewable Electricity

Since 2014, the RE100 initiative has been working behind the scenes with businesses and organizations of all sizes and sectors to negotiate transitions to 100 percent renewable electricity. The reason is simple:...

Renewable Energy Booming After a Decade of Progress

The sun is rising on a newer, cleaner era of American energy use. The U.S. generates nearly eight times as much electricity from the sun and the wind than it did in 2007—enough...

APPLE: Building Another Data Center Fueled Entirely by Renewable Energy

Apple said it will spend 6 billion Danish crowns ($921 million) on a new data center in Denmark, its second in the Nordic country to run entirely on renewable energy. Facebook in...

Apple to Power Oregon Data Center with Wind Energy

Apple recently disclosed a deal to purchase 200 MW of wind power from the Montague Wind Farm for its Prineville, Oregon data center. The news was announced in the company’s annual environmental...

Apple Pledges to Pursue Use of 100 Per Cent Recycled Materials

Apple is aiming to use 100 per cent recycled materials to make its iPhones, Macbooks, and other electronics products in future in a bid to reduce its reliance on mined raw materials,...

Apple’s New Solar-Powered Spaceship Office is Nearly Complete

One of the world’s most anticipated buildings is nearly complete – new drone footage shows that Apple’s $5 billion solar-powered “spaceship” office is on track to meet its 2016 completion goal. According...

Climate Week NYC Kicks-off Today with the Climate Group’s Opening Ceremony

The eighth edition of Climate Week NYC was officially launched yesterday at the The Climate Group’s Opening Ceremony and a series of high-profile events, once again bringing essential debate on global climate challenges...

To Fight Climate Change, We Need to ‘Uberize’ the Energy Industry

Organizing capital, in isolation, isn’t enough to get hundreds of Elon Musks dedicating themselves to building companies that develop critical new wind, solar, nuclear and battery technology. In June, Hemant Taneja attended a breakfast...

Here Is Why Google Is Buying a Crazy Amount of Clean Energy

Google just closed on a deal to buy a significant amount of clean energy from two new wind farms that will be built in Norway and Sweden to help power its data...

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