Green Apple

"We love Apple. Apple knows more about "clean" design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned? A cutting edge company shouldn't be cutting lives short by exposing children in China and India to dangerous chemicals. That's why we Apple fans need to demand a new, cool product: a greener Apple."

Campanha da Greenpeace para uma Apple mais 'verde'.


Depois do que vi, particularmente os videos feitos na China e na Índia, o meu velhinho (e abandonado) PowerPC G3 beje desktop fica mesmo comigo. É inacreditável a poluição a todos os níveis, que todos os fabricantes de informática e TVs, sujeitam tantos as pessoas - que honestamente ganham uns míseros trocados - e o meio-ambiente. Mesmo sendo em menor número em relação à enorme quantidade de peças PC, como pode Al Gore pactuar com isto, sendo ele o mais mediático ambientalista e membro da adminstração da Apple? Se a "nossa" marca é única, deverá obrigatoriamente sê-lo também aqui: no uso de materiais amigos do ambiente, pela protecção do planeta, pelo desenvolvimento humano sustentado, pela eliminação limpa do material tornado lixo.
Eu já enviei o meu protesto. I want my Apple greener.

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Greenpeace Lies About Apple



"(...) If Greenpeace were at all interested in anything other than getting donations to maintain its status quo, it would challenge cheap PC dumpers on their efforts to shoot out disposable, garbage PCs that have a two year lifespan, not grandstand for the two biggest companies that produce the majority of the worlds cheap PCs while they vilify Apple.

In comparison, Apple makes PCs that are sold at a minimum price point that allows them to make sustainable machines that last longer. Apple can afford to do this because it is making enough money on premium machines to avoid participating in the high volume, low quality majority market.

Why should anyone continue to fund Greenpeace in their efforts to badmouth companies that contribute a tiny fraction of the world's PCs, while gushing about the promises (not kept) of the major PC makers, who contribute the most toxic and the vast majority of e-waste?"

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