Apple
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Amazon’s cloud is about to get dirtier
The company's cloud computing services rely heavily on fossil fuels. A new billion-dollar data center isn't going to help that.
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Your iPhone is about to get (a little) less toxic
The next step in a green direction: Apple will prohibit the use of benzene and n-hexane in final assembly of iPhones and iPads.
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iPod’s packaging dissolves in water
So Apple's coolness factor is now going to increase, if that is possible. Their packaging dissolves in water. Yeah. Watch.
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How Apple Maps could save the planet
When it comes to energy efficiency, Apple Maps blows Google Maps out of the water.
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Why the rumors about the iPhone ditching walking, public transit are wrong
We got our hands on a developer version of the new iPhone operating system. What we found may be even better than you would expect.
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Critical List: Massive tariffs for Chinese solar panels; Bike to Work Day
The Commerce Department announced that the U.S. could put tariffs of up to 250 percent on Chinese solar panels imported into the country. It’s Bike to Work Day! First the Arizona Congress wanted crazy legislation to ban all government work on sustainability, now it’s the New Hampshire Congress. So trendy!
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Critical List: Americans link climate change to hot weather; yet another Keystone XL bill
The majority of Americans are convinced that climate change had something to do with the warm winter and last year’s super hot summer. Good news: They believe climate change has consequences. Bad news: When it gets cold, they’ll be convinced we fixed it. House Republicans are going to vote today on yet another bill that […]
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Critical List: Court upholds local fracking ban; New York could ban shark fin sales
A New York state court upheld the town of Dryden’s ban on fracking. Republicans are trying to pin rising gas prices on President Obama. Apple could allow independent environmental reviews of two factories in China. Chinese air pollution is visible from space.
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Apple HQ could have the country’s biggest solar installation, and it still won’t be enough
The current plan for the new Apple headquarters calls for 500,000 or more square feet of solar panels, generating at least 5MW of power. That could make it the biggest corporate solar panel installation in the U.S. — but Apple operations take so much power that this will just be supplemental. The proposed building, which […]