Tag: Greenpeace
Microsoft, Nintendo, Sharp and Philips added to Greenpeace's list of SHAME
Poor old Nintendo got slated by Greenpeace yesterday, with the console maker picking up a thoroughly shameful 0/10 for its environmental plans.
Nintendo did so poorly because the world-beating toy maker doesn’t give its consumers any advice whatsoever about the levels of toxic chemicals…
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over iPhone's eco-unfriendliness
Greenpeace has been bugging Apple about the iPhone since before it launched Stateside back in June, and now, just weeks before its European debut, they've stripped open apart to show just how environmentally unfriendly it is. So they say. Apparently,…
Greenpeace launches range of dimmable energy-efficient lightbulbs
As part of the 100% Design London exhibition, Greenpeace unveiled what it claims to be the world's first dimmable low-energy light bulbs. They commissioned designer Jason Bruges to create an "interactive garden of light", which responded to human movement via…
Greenpeace wants to survey green gadgets as well as companies
If you’re a regular reader of Tech Digest, you might remember our posts on Greenpeace’s consumer electronics reports, in which it rates the world’s top tech companies on their production and recycling processes to see how eco-friendly they are.
Apple's green pledges move them up the Greenpeace ranks… slightly
For the first time, Apple aren’t rock bottom in Greenpeace’s quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics.
Thanks to the “Greener Apple” pledge to phase out PVC and other chemicals from their product line, Greenpeace moves them up to 10th place, now tied with HP and above Sony, LG, and Panasonic.
2007 Tech Trends No. 2: Green Gadgets
Second in a series of posts highlighting Tech Digest’s pick of big technology trends for the second half of 2007…
Technology companies make money from flogging us technology as often as possible. They don’t tend to make money from hugging trees. So when you see a company like Dell announcing plans to become the greenest technology company on Earth, you get a sense of why eco-gadgetry is increasingly seen as a vital business strategy by tech firms.
Greenpeace campaigning for a greener iPhone
Imagine: you’re first in the queue outside an Apple Store at 5.59pm on 29th June, with one hand on your credit-card while the other is planted squarely in the face of the person behind to make sure they don’t push past. And suddenly you’re plagued by doubt: what if this iPhone thing isn’t ecologically sound?
Lenovo tops Greenpeace's latest eco-charts
The Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has climbed to the top spot in Greenpeace's latest quarterly report on how environmentally friendly electronics firms are. Previously, the PC maker ranked low but in the first report of 2007 has succeeded Nokia, Sony…
