Companies going green...some hope for the planet
Enterprises are slowly awakening to the cause of the planet...not because they are becoming climate conscious, but because these"bloody environmentalists" are bloody "eating into their
First it was Apple that declared that it would go green, after a rather vociferous campaign by GreenPeace and Climate Counts invoking Apple to show some energy sense. Apple's environmental rating as established by Climate Counts is pathetically low.Not that any other companies fare any better.The lowest ones are Amazon, eBay, Wendy's, Burger King while those that are better off and among the top are Unilever, Canon, Nike. The non-profit org, and me too, urge people to buy their stuff from those showing some environmental concern.
GreenPeace also publishes its rankings every year...and I learn, Nokia is better off in its list of Green Electronics, than Apple. And IBM is also one cool du
de...Some of the ratings are as follows:
Apple - 2 /100 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IBM - 70
Toshiba - 66
HP - 59
Dell - 41
Canon - 77 !!!
Yahoo - 36
Microsoft - 31
Google - 17 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Google made an ambitious announcement to become Carbon Neutral b the end of 2007)
Coca Cola - 57
Pepsi - 26
Kellogg - 24
The latest entrant in the climate revival group is McDonald's, whose UK concern has committed to making all its vehicles run on organic gas - biofuel containing a mixture of cooking oil it uses everyday and petrol. The move, the company claims, would save 1650 tonnes of carbon every year...cool!
Why single out these cos when there are greenhouse emitters all around? True, there are emitters all around, but who says the cos are being singled out? Greenpeace and other environmental organisations are acting on multiple fronts - nations, companies, communities and individuals. Energy efficiency should be our prime concern too...So keep replace those incandescent tubes with CFLs, switch off unnecessary power, purchase stuff with an energy rating, and exhort others to do their bit for the planet...
That should keep the earth from warming even more because of you!! Remember the adage... "Think globally...ACT locally"
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I'm sure Apple will drastically improve their ratings soon. Al Gore is on their board of directors! I'm surprised actually. I expected that they'll be on the top of the list of climate conscious companies.
Apparently the Climate Count ratings have extremely limited validity and it's rating system is deeply flawed. The scorecard doesn't rank companies based on actual carbon emissions, but corporate policy towards being eco-friendly.
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