Greenpeace Archive

  • Greenpeace says Nintendo is the worst company on Earth, tells Dell to clean up its act

    Greenpeace says Nintendo is the worst company on Earth, tells Dell to clean up its act

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Greenpeace's relentless march toward reminding us that we're killing the planet continues. The organization released its annual "Who's Green?" list yesterday, and Nokia and Sony Ericsson get A+ marks, while Lenovo and Nintendo are, apparently, the dregs of society. Also on the wrong side of Greenpeace: Dell. The Texas-based company found itself on the wrong end of a rather impressive Greenpeace action yesterday. Oh, dear...

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  • Greenpeace: iPad could increase demand for ‘dirty coal power’

    Greenpeace: iPad could increase demand for ‘dirty coal power’

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    This may be the greatest sentence ever written in the English language: "As IT industry analysts label 2010 the 'Year of the Cloud,' a new report by Greenpeace shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad raises fresh questions about how the Internet is powered and whether the IT sector will continue to fuel climate change by increasing demand for dirty coal power." Dirty Coal Power: on tour this summer (with special guest Limp Bizkit)! In other words, does the iPad hate freedom? Obviously.

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  • Add Samsung to Greenpeace’s hate list (for now)

    Add Samsung to Greenpeace’s hate list (for now)

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Greenpeacenow officially hates Samsung. The environmental organization has taken issue with Samsung's inability to remove Brominated Flame Retardants, or BFRs, from its products. BFRs have been linked to environmental damage, and specific types have been banned from Europe altogether because of the potential for human harm.

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  • Greenpeace will be at CES cutting a promo on anti-green companies

    Greenpeace will be at CES cutting a promo on anti-green companies

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    I've inexplicably become CrunchGear's go-to green writer. If there's a “green” tech story out there, I'm on the scene. Why, I don't know, especially because my attitude toward the environment is, “Meh, I'm lucky if I hit 70 years old, what do I care?” Don't tell that to Greenpeace though. The activists made famous by that Seinfeld episode will be at next month's CES (as will all of your friendly neighborhood CrunchGear writers) to give the lowdown on what companies are green and what companies are a bunch of jerks.

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  • Apple quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce over environmental policy

    Apple quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce over environmental policy

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Seemingly overnight, Apple has become the poster child of the responsible, Green company. (Apple recently posted all the details of its efforts; Greenpeace is now BFFs with Apple.) In fact, it's so pro-enviroment (as if anyone is anti-environment!) that it just quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is a huge organization that represents business interests to the various powers that be. The USCC, however, is all up in arms about all this “nonsense” about new laws designed to protect the environment and whatnot, so it's doing its damnedest to ensure that those laws don't get passed. That's what has upset Apple.

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  • Greenpeace hates Apple, HP a little bit less today

    Greenpeace hates Apple, HP a little bit less today

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Like many of you, my knowledge of Greenpeace begins and ends with that one Seinfeld episode, the one where the NBC executive, so in love with Elaine, freaks out and joins the organization in order to impress her. That is to say I don't really understand the “point” of the organization, or who appointed it the protector of the environment. But, it is, somehow, so let's roll with it. Good news for HP and Apple: Greenpeace hates you two a little bit less today! Break out the champagne!

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  • Apple to Greenpeace: Look, we’re trying our best, ok!

    Apple to Greenpeace: Look, we’re trying our best, ok!

    Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
    It looks like all of Greenpeace's needling of Apple over the past few years has paid off, as the house that Jobs built is about to announce its successes in becoming a more green company. Think carbon emissions data,all that jazz. Even though Apple is trying plenty hard to assuage the Green Brigade, it thinks it's being treated rather unfairly.

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  • HP demonstrates why Greenpeace dubbed the company “Hazardous Products”

    HP demonstrates why Greenpeace dubbed the company “Hazardous Products”

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Take a guess what’s in that shipping box from HP. A few notebooks? Maybe a large, multifunction printer. Or it could be a production quality CRT monitor. All those are possible because, well, the box is huge and it’s on a shipping pallet, but they are also all wrong. This is crazy. That huge box contains [...]

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  • Greenpeace action targets HP over ‘Hazardous Products’

    Greenpeace action targets HP over ‘Hazardous Products’

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Indie rock band Greenpeace has a problem with HP, specifically its broken promises vis–à-vis toxic chemicals in its products. The band's frontman, Casey Harrell, says that “HP continues to put hazardous products on the market despite promises made years ago to phase out these toxic compounds.” So, to get back at HP, Greenpeace members “climbed to the top of HP’s global headquarters and painted the message ‘Hazardous Products’ in big, bold letters on the roof.”

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