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<title>Apple datacenters now fully powered by renewable energy</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/21/company.still.working.toward.goal.of.complete.renewable.energy.use/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple's datacenters are now fully supplied by renewable energy, the company has announced on its website.  The company is relying mostly on a mix of solar, wind, and geothermal energy.  At a facility in Maiden, North Carolina, it is also relying on fuel cells that convert biogas; the main source of energy though is a 100-acre solar farm, which became fully operational in December.  The company sa...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple supplier faces penalties for polluting Chinese river</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/22/waste.discharge.killled.fish.hurt.farming/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354289112_ipadmini-hands.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A supplier of iPad casings is facing sanctions by the Shanghai government for polluting a local river, the Financial Times reports. Waste discharges by Casetek subsidiary Riteng are said to have regularly turned the river milky white since the Songjiang #3 factory opened two years ago.  The fish population in the river has died, while area farmers say they can no longer use the water to grow their...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Greenpeace downgrades Apple over transparency issues</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/19/claims.company.not.talking.about.emissions.clean.energy/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1353351580_greep2012.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Environmental activism group Greenpeace has downgraded Apple in its 18th annual Guide to Green Electronics.  The slip to sixth place is blamed on a "lack of transparency" with several issues, namely "GHG [greenhouse gas] emission reporting, clean energy advocacy, further information on its [Apple's] management of toxic chemicals, and details on post-consumer recycled plastic use."...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple buys $3M in extra land for North Carolina datacenter</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/20/almost.220.acres.for.new.solar.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1203/apple-maiden.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is planning to expand its North Carolina datacenter yet again, and has paid for $3 million in additional land near Conover, according to the Hickory Daily Record.  The purchase includes a base 218.885 acres plus another 0.251, all expected to support a new solar farm.  The information stems from records at the Catawba County Register of Deeds....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple, Google lobbying money drops during Q2</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/23/epeat.tracking.among.issues.in.apples.agenda/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339104629_applehq-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple spent about $470,000 lobbying US Congresspeople during the second quarter of 2012, versus Google's $3,920,000, Fortune notes.  New Congressional lobbying reports have been released, indicating that both companies spent slightly less during the quarter in their efforts to influence politicians.  During the first quarter, Google spent $5,030,000, versus Apple's $500,000....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple backtracks, puts eligible products back on EPEAT list</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/bobmansfield-new.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has reversed course on an earlier decision and put all qualifying products back on a list of products certified to the EPEAT environmental standard.  The decision was announced today through an open letter by Bob Mansfield, Apple's soon-to-be-retired senior VP of hardware engineering.  "Weíve recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were disappointed to learn that we had removed ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Greenpeace: Apple clean energy policies have improved</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/12/activist.group.still.wants.apple.to.drop.coal.power/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342123437_ScreenShot2012-07-12at4.02.39PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Environmentalist group Greenpeace says that Apple's clean energy policies have improved, but the company still has a long way to go. In a new report, Greenpeace analyzes Apple's efforts to reduce its dependency on coal-power, finding that the iPad maker has yet to lay out a realistic plan to power its iCloud offerings with cleaner energy alternatives. Greenpeace's "Clean Energy Road Map" gave...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple wins rights to sixth solar power patent</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/12/tech.still.not.in.any.shipping.product/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342101235_solarpatagain.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has won rights to a sixth US patent related to solar power, according to Patently Apple.  The concept involves a portable device with several power interfaces, of which one could be an "auxiliary" source, specifically solar cells.  How those cells might be integrated into a device is left out of the equation....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>San Francisco to halt Mac buys in wake of EPEAT issue</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/10/could.be.harbinger.of.wider.problems.for.apple/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339528054_macbookpro2012-zebras.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[San Francisco will soon stop buying Macs for the city's 50 agencies, according to Department of Environment officials speaking with the Wall Street Journal.  The officials say that within the next two weeks it will send out letters to agencies explaining that Macs "no longer qualify" for city money, following Apple's request to have 39 desktops, monitors, and notebooks pulled from a list of EPEAT-...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple 'spaceship' campus gets expedited environmental check</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/02/gov.brown.cites.apple.energy.promises/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1337561940_campus2-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The office of California Governor Jerry Brown has approved Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus for a streamlined environmental review, says the San Jose Mercury News.  While the change isn't expected to speed up the structure's construction, which will only start next year, it should allow Apple to bypass some potential headaches during the review process.  With the project classified under t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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