Greenpeace may seem to have good intentions, but they use dirty tactics to push their extremist views.

Attacking Apple was nothing but a move to get headlines. Claiming, "No manufacturer has met this standard," is a flat out garbage. What standard? Your insane standard. Do you write the environmental laws for not only this Country but the entire world as well?

I'm sick of the new green trend. Nobody does any research and just takes what the media tells them as divine truth. Compact flourescents, puhlease! Lets pollute the world with Mercury to save $4 a year in energy costs.

[end rant]

Seems to me Green-P is more apropos.

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"I'd say this was a canny tactic by Greenpeace: they picked on the company that was most likely to be nettled into doing something because it's the company whose end-users are the most likely to be upset by a lack of green cred. Corporate purchasers rarely source on the basis of green, but end-users sometimes do."

But think about how much more HP and Dell sell and their atrocious environmental records. Dell and HP don't care if Apple is environmental - their users would never consider a Mac because of all the FUD generated about Macs. Picking on Apple because it is more responsive is not the right thing to do. I am ashamed to be an environmentalist when such a well known group resorts to such tactics. It would serve Greenpeace right if they started polluting more. Maybe they could dump the waste on Greenpeace's headquarters.

Greenpeace is thisclose to the terrorist group Earth Liberation Front in its tactics. Steve Jobs should have told those eco-fascists to go f_ck themselves.

"generally favorable in tone, but with some reservations."

MacNN does it again_ I guees I just come to this site to have MacNN give me a Rize_ I don't know why else otherwise_

That article by Greenpeace had no negative commentary about Apple_

But Yeah GPs consternation towards Apple is un-warranted if Steve's statement carries any accuracy - then someone [Dell - Micro$oft] has their hands in GPs pie someplace along the line - otherwise why aren't we hearing them b**** and groan about M$ - Dell - Sony - HP and the rest ?

Greenpeace can kiss the brown in my arse !!

Why doesn't Greenpeace start their own PC recycling program and prove they are trying to help the environment. Them wasting resources to complain is not helping the environment in any way.

GP praised Apple for improvements and promises for improvements in the future as technology allows. You may be simply anti-green everything (since "green" has turned into marketing rather than philosophy), but this is hardly fanatic or Earth First-like.

GP didn't carpet bomb anyone or flood an Apple store with green slime or any of the dozen fears that the right-wing of the technogeek nation thought would happen.

They mention issues, they use propaganda (which is worth criticism) and they employ economic pressure to affect change. Wow they are just like every other organization and corporation in the world.

So how 'bout take a chill pill and turn off Rush and sleep soundly knowing that the mean greenies are not going to force you into communist collectives or take away your 52" plasma. If "some reservations" sounds so fanatic to you, maybe you should check into a nursiing home now and start drinking Ensure before you freak out about something really extreme, like the Clean Water Act.

I might kidnap 12 bunny rabbits and hold them hostage, threatening to dump them in an oil slick of my own making until Greenpeace and PETA pay me a gazillion dollars. It'd be sooooo easy to scam organizations like this.