Comments on: Apple a laggard in climate-change plans, report says

Environmental group measures climate change programs at corporations to see whether "green" claims are backed up. IBM, Google, and Microsoft fare much better than Apple.

[mmichaels]

I have gained more respect for Apple. AGW - What a crock.

[MyRightEye]

Well, so what you're telling us is that Apple employs people that can discern fear-mongering propaganda from scientific reality. Is it so strange for a computer company to know the difference between computer simulated forecasts that scream AGW and the actual scientific data that screams "settle down young children, its all ok"? Not really.

[pking13]

Some good news from eBay today about their new solar installation in San Jose, CA. Apparently I can't post links to other news sources -- so go check out the Mercury News web site yourself.

I simply can't imagine that Apple's environmental record is as bad as this story claims. We're talking about a single study funded by a yogurt company. I'm not sure why this study is trustworthy, or if this single study's findings are really newsworthy.

[chad.armstrong]

"funded by a yogurt company" - I almost spit water all over my screen

[Nicholas Buenk]

If every desk had an iMac instead of your average PC box. It would do a lot to prevent climate change, it's the Prius of desktops. Apple's computers are far more efficient with power than your average computer. Largely because they use many laptop components, to fit a computer into a monitor. And more than half of macs sold are actually laptops too.
Perhaps this is why Apple loses, they are confident already that they're environmentally sound and hence haven't looked carefully into their logistics systems.

[Orion Blastar]

Al Gore is an environmental adviser to Apple, how come he missed those violations?

[greeny73]

I have trouble believing this at first glance. On another green news site - http://www.cutyourfootprint.com - they have evaluations of how green companies are and they don't seem to fit with these results.

[histerius]

Climate Counts' report is an example of very bad PR. You may read my analysis here: http://www.poandpo.com/business-as-usual/how-climate-counts-got-it-all-wrong/