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Steve Jobs is back in green with Environmental Update 2008
MacUser — ... While Steve Jobs definitely spent some time touting the environmental impact—or lack thereof—of its latest laptops yesterday, what may have slipped under the radar was that Apple at long last released its Environmental Update 2008. Back in May 2007, Jobs ...

Steve Jobs posts Apple's 2008 Environmental Update
Infinite Loop — ... ." At that time, Jobs indirectly acknowledged Greenpeace's constant critiques about the company's efforts on reducing toxic chemicals and waste in its products and packaging. He said that Apple would be more forthcoming regarding environmental policies and would begin making a number of changes, such as introducing LED-backlit displays to its products and recycling more. Today, Jobs has updated us on Apple's environmental progress since that first essay. In a new post to Apple's web site , he outlines some of the things Apple has done in recent years, such as eliminating ...

News: Mix: Apple Environmental Update, ngmoco, iPod lawsuit
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted a new update discussing the company’s environmental progress through 2008 and announcing new Product Environmental Reports for each new Apple product introduced. “For the past several years, Apple has made a concerted effort to be more transparent about the steps we are taking to protect the environment and make our business more sustainable. In this environmental update, I’d like to inform you of our recent progress and introduce you to a groundbreaking system of reporting that we believe is unmatched in our industry,” Jobs writes. ...

Steve Jobs offers Apple's 2008 Green Update
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Apple today published an update on its environmental plans. "For the past several years, Apple has made a concerted effort to be more transparent about the steps we are taking to protect the environment and make our business more sustainable. In this environmental update, I’d like to inform you of our recent progress and introduce you to a groundbreaking system of reporting that we believe is unmatched in our industry," the open message, signed by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, explains. "Last year we announced the ...

Steve Jobs Announces: Apple 2008 Environmental Update
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — Regarding Apple’s continuous push towards meeting above-average environmental standards, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has officially released a new statement on Apple’s website. Read the full letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Apple.com Below are Apple’s Product Environmental Reports: (PDF Downloads) Year after year Apple has set and met important goals to reduce its impact on the environment. The links below document these efforts and their ...

Apple posts 2008 Environmental Update report by Steve Jobs
Macsimum News — ... Apple has published the Apple 2008 Environmental Update by Steve Jobs. You can read the whole thing here, but following are some highlights: ...

Jobs touts Apple's environmental progress, Greenpeace gives thumbs up
Latest from Computerworld — ... devoting significant time to environmental concerns at Apple," the environmental group said in a statement today. Greenpeace was reacting to an environmental progress report Apple published Thursday. Signed by Jobs , the update gave an overview of Apple's promise last year to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from all Apple products by the end of 2008, and to remove mercury and arsenic from its displays. "I'm proud to report that all of Apple's new product designs are on track to meet our 2008 year-end goal," Jobs wrote. In May ...

MacBook Praised But Greenpeace Wants Greener Apple
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Not quite the breakthrough we were hoping for." The reductions place the new MacBooks roughly on par with Sony's Vaio notebooks on PVC, Greenpeace said. The BFR-free components represent an improvement over the bar set earlier by Sony in the Vaio line. More encouraging was Jobs' 2008 Environmental Update, which the company posted Thursday. In the document, Jobs said Apple is on track to eliminate PVC and BFRs in all of the company's new product designs by the end of the year. In addition, Jobs said Apple would surpass a 28% recycling rate this year, two years ahead of ...

Apple publica carta sobre avanços ambientais durante o ano de 2008
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... Após o lançamento dos novos MacBooks, uma carta escrita pelo próprio Steve Jobs foi publicada no site da Apple, falando sobre os últimos avanços ambientais da companhia realizados durante o ano de 2008. ...

Steve Speaks: It’s Not Easy Being Greener
Top iPhone News — ... high media profile, Greenpeace likes to have a little fun with them. Nothing gets headlines like bashing Apple in the tech industry, especially if you’re hippie enough to make Steve Jobs seem more like Stephen Colbert. With Al Gore on their board, however, it’s probably safe to say Apple has to at least appear to be one of the more — if not most — environmentally friendly major tech company in the US. Case in point, and unprecedented second open letter from Steve Jobs: ...

Steve Speaks: It’s Not Easy Being Greener
Top iPhone News — ... high media profile, Greenpeace likes to have a little fun with them. Nothing gets headlines like bashing Apple in the tech industry, especially if you’re hippie enough to make Steve Jobs seem more like Stephen Colbert. With Al Gore on their board, however, it’s probably safe to say Apple has to at least appear to be one of the more — if not most — environmentally friendly major tech company in the US. Case in point, and unprecedented second open letter from Steve Jobs: ...

Sarah Palin may have lost but she will continue to amuse us for a while. http://bit.ly/3FXp0a
Politweets — ... Rupee exchange has gone from Rs39 to Rs49 in 1yr - that's 25%. 9:59 AM Oct 29th from twitterrific 18% interest rate in Iceland. wow. http://bit.ly/1McJTm 8:59 AM Oct 28th from twitterrific Setting my language/region to Gujarati/India in System Preferences and watching it show up everywhere on screen. It's quite amazing! 11:28 AM Oct 24th from twitterrific Environmental update from Steve Jobs. Completely missed this last week - http://www.apple.com/enviro... 10:06 PM Oct 20th from twitterrific The winner ...

New Apple Commercial Shows Intentions With Going Green
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... other computers. Apple engineers also designed the software and hardware to work together, in order to maximize energy efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of the MacBook. Even the packaging was reconsidered and reduced, so there would be smaller boxes to ship and less material to recycle. The result is exactly what we hoped for: the greenest family of notebooks ever made. Read - The New Green Macbooks Read - Apple and the Environment Read - Apple 2008 Environmental Update Read - Environmental Performance 2008 ...

Dell Green, Alright — Green With Envy
Digital Daily — ... which details the company’s efforts to remove toxic chemicals from its products and to recyle its older products. It might have found Apple’s 2008 Environmental Update as well. That document explains, in a fair bit of detail, the company’s efforts to temper the environmental impact of not just Apple products, but the company’s facilities, a well. Offers a nice overview of ...

Dell VP: Apple Green Ads Not “Truthful”
The Mac Observer — ... CEO Steve Jobs wrote and published on the company's Web site. Apple has also devoted a Web page to clearly stating its goals towards producing "greener" computers -- goals that Mr. Pearson claimed Apple is not stating. "Apple hasn't stated any goals, just made claims, which as far as we can tell, are not accurate," he said. Mr. Pearson also called Apple to task for its product ...

Greener Apple: New Macs, iPods aim for efficiency, cleaner environment
Betanews — ... with information about how it calculates the carbon footprints of its products. "No other electronics company reports this information at the product level, so it's impossible to compare the carbon footprint for each of our new products with those of our competitors. If other manufacturers were to provide the same data, we are confident that Apple's products would stack up very well," according to a statement by Apple. The page also contains a link to a page called " Apple 2008 Environmental Update " written by Jobs, who has been out on a medical leave of absence since ...