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Greenpeace activists protest Apple by blocking train tracks

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 4th, 2012)

Greenpeace activists tried to stop Apple's coal consumption at its source by blocking train tracks that Duke Energy uses to ship coal to Apple's Maiden, North Carolina data center. Activists targeted the Marshall Steam Station in Catawba county, according to a report in Charlotte's ...

Greenpeace releases balloons in Apple Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 25th, 2012)

Greenpeace is trying to highlight Apple's choice to power its data center with coal by holding a series of demonstrations at Apple stores. The latest stunt involved bunches of black balloons that were released in Apple stores in NYC, San Francisco and Toronto. Greenpeace called the protest a ...

Apple has the "least green" data centers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 21st, 2011)

Apple has come in last place among a list of tech companies in the latest Greenpeace tech report How Dirty is Your Data? [PDF]. While Apple has made some pretty big strides over the last few years in trying to eliminate environmentally unfriendly chemicals from its products, Apple placed last in ...