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[VIRALBLOG.COM» Viral ideas.Trends. Inspiration] Greenpeace has released an online video which is calling to stop powering Facebook’s data centre in Oregon with electricity generated by burning coal. According to Greenpeace, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile doesnt list his relationship status, but if it did, it might say “in a relationship with coal”.
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[Business Insider] Greenpeace Targets Barbie With New Campaign: Greenpeace’s attractive promo imagines Ken, Barbie’s eternal boyfriend, dumping the famous blondie after finding out about her very un-green habits. Mattel responded swiftly saying it was putting in place a policy to address the issues raised by Greenpeace.
[Thegreengrid.org] The Green Grid Releases New Carbon Metric for Data Centers ...: The maximum theoretical score is 1.0, meaning the data center uses all its power for powering IT equipment only, with no energy going towards heating or cooling. That's certainly the case with Facebook's Oregon data center, for example.
[Earth Matters News] Greenpeace activists urge Facebook to 'like' green energy | MNN ...: "We continue to find this kind of engagement valuable and look forward (to) working with Greenpeace and others to address key environmental issues, including energy efficiency and renewable energy," Facebook said.
[ecoAmerica/Blog] ecoAmerica/Blog: Greenpeace targets Facebook employees in clean ...: Facebook says its new data centre will be extremely energy efficient. A spokesperson said: "The Oregon data centre will use an innovative evaporative cooling system ”¦ these investments in efficiency design, planning and technology will result in one of, if not the most, energy efficient data centres in the world."
[Kioskea.net] Greenpeace urges Facebook to "friend" green energy: Greenpeace claimed that its Facebook rally post set a Guinness World Record for the number of comments on a post in 24 hours, with 65,000 responses logged by mid-day and more expected by the deadline.
[what IS working] Pressured by Greenpeace, Mattel cuts off sub-supplier APP ~ what ...: "It's good that Mattel has realized it has a major deforestation problem, but it's still missing a comprehensive policy to deal with this issue," said Rolf Skar, the group's senior forest campaigner. "The world's biggest toy company seems to be saying it isn't to blame for the actions of its suppliers."Skar said Mattel should remove APP and Sinar Mas from its supply chain and give a clear deadline for cutting off the supplier.
[One Fair World] Greenpeace Turning the Heat Up in Facebook Unfriend Coal Campaign ...: You certainly have to give Greenpeace a lot of credit for persistence and constantly finding new ways to push for big campaigns to help the world. We've been covering Greenpeace's campaign to get Facebook to unfriend .
[crunchgear] Greenpeace Ranks Data Centers, Names Yahoo Cleanest And Apple The ...: Yeah seriously, I remember when greenpeace did one of these things before and I read into the methodology that they used and a whole bunch of the companies were knocked for not participating in greenpeace’s study….sorry greenpeace, a company isn’t more or less green based on how willing they are to waste their time talking to you.
[LA Times Environment Blog] Greenpeace campaign targets Mattel - latimes.com: In turning its attention to the pulp-and-paper industry, Greenpeace chose the toy sector as its target “because children value wildlife and animals,” Skar said. “What sort of story does that tell when the Sumatran tiger is on the brink of extinction and Mattel is looking the other way?”
[Free All Blog Tips , Blogger Themes , Wordpress themes] Greenpeace urges Facebook to 'like' green energy - Free All Blog ...: "We want them to 'unfriend' coal and 'Like' green energy," said Greenpeace spokesman Daniel Kessler, who estimated that a dozen volunteers greeted Facebook employees as they arrived the startup's campus in the Silicon Valley city of Palo Alto.
[Barry Healey :: writer] Barry Healey :: writer » Blog Archive » Why Do I Need Greenpeace?: I only began paying serious attention to what was being done to the planet 15 years ago when my daughter was born. Since then, I remain dumbfounded each time a toxic human finds a new method of degrading the planet; and atonished by what the good guys (Greenpeace, etc.) manage to attempt and to achieve. Anyone seeing the photo of a Greenpeacer hanging from a net on the underside of an ocean oil rig in the Arctic, holding up a sign reading “Go Beyond Oil”, must, like me, be completely in awe.
[Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog] Greenpeace flies a blimp over Facebook HQ ... - Green Data Center Blog: Greenpeace has been urging Facebook to "UnFriend Coal" and to stop using coal and nuclear to power its data centers.
[geekgirl] Facebook world Record are you in? #renewableeneregy #greenpeace ...: Back in February, Greenpeace gave Facebook a deadline of April 22nd to announce a plan to go coal free, but as of today we still don’t have a commitment from them to switch to renewable energy. So we figured it was time to do something that would really get their attention: set a Guinness world record on Facebook by generating 50,000 comments on one post in 24 hours.
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