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The new MacBook Pro, which experts have deemed as unrecyclable.

Apple ditches EPEAT green standard, then rejoins amid heavy criticism

2 August, 2012

In a rather surprising move Apple, the computer manufacturer, decided to pull out its entire line of around 40 products from the EPEAT green certification registry last month. According to anonymous sources within the company, Apple no longer wanted their … Continue reading

Workers use cleavers for extracting metal parts from used capacitors.

The Dangers of E-Waste

15 February, 2011

What is E-waste? E-waste stands for electronic waste. This includes anything from discarded and broken cell phones, computers, iPods, and small appliances. Developed nations are dealing with a crisis of overconsumption, which produces many harmful consequences. One of these consequences is e-waste, which … Continue reading

The new Apple laptops – are they green?

16 October, 2008

Apple recently released their new line of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, which are mainly made from aluminium. They say that they are their greenest latops ever and claims that they are “highly recyclable and even more energy efficient”, and … Continue reading

Edison: Free Energy-Saving Software

8 August, 2008

Edison is a new and free energy-saving PC software from the developers at Verdiem. The software makes it a lot easier for you to control your computers power saving features helping you save electricity and money. Edison doesn’t shut down … Continue reading

Change your Windows XP Power Profile to save energy

2 March, 2008

Yesterday we got this email from Matt Bentley: Changing Microsoft XP power scheme settings determines whether or not power-saving CPU features are activated in a machine when idle. All modern desktop CPU’s past the AMD Athlon XP and the Intel … Continue reading

Activate your computers power saving features

24 September, 2007

Yesterday I talked about how you can fight global warming by buying a laptop due to the fact that they generally use less energy than an ordinary desktop computer. But it doesn’t really matter if you use a laptop or … Continue reading

Zonbu – the first zero-emissions personal computer

21 August, 2007

Zonbu is a small, small like the mac mini, personal computer. But what’s special about the Zonbu is not that it’s so small, it’s that it’s the first zero-emission personal computer. Zonbu runs on a linux platform with a 1.2 … Continue reading

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