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 [Tech.moneycontrol.com] Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Would You Pay More For ”˜Cleaner’ PCs?: A study by Ipsos-Mori for Greenpeace reveals more PC users want greener, environment friendly computers, even if it they have to pay £108 ($197) extra for it.

 [Newstatesman.co.uk] New Media Awards 2006 Weblog - Computer polluter: According to an Ipsos-Mori study for Greenpeace, people are willing to pay up to £108 extra for a computer that uses fewer hazardous chemicals. An eco-friendly PC movement is beginning to take off, due to this consumer response. Dell said it will discontinue use of all brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride in its computers by 2009.

[Eyebeam reBlog] China, Mexico, and Others Would Pay More for... : How much more would you be willing to pay for a non-toxic computer? "Uh, how is a computer toxic?" you ask, "and why does it matter?." Consider the amount of PCs thrown out every year in the U.S. alone (imagine a 22-story pile of old computers covering the entire 472 square miles of the City of Los Angeles)

 [Treehugger] China, Mexico, and Others Would Pay More for... : "Uh, how is a computer toxic?" you ask, "and why does it matter?." Consider the amount of PCs that will be thrown out in the U.S. over the next few years (imagine a 22-story pile of old computers covering the entire 472 square miles of the City of Los Angeles, one study estimates) and the sort of nasty stuff that goes with them (flame retardant chemicals, plastics, and heavy metals like cadmium, lead and mercury) when they get dumped in poor villages in India and China. According to a new nine-country survey (PDF summary here) conducted on behalf of Greenpeace by Ipsos-Mori, PC users in Mexico are most ready to put the green where the green is: on average, those surveyed would shell out $226 extra for an eco-PC;

[Eco-Geek] Greener PCs: As Paperless Undergrad (A blog dedicated to the worthy goal of avoiding the use of thinly sliced trees) notes, it ain’t exactly earth-shattering news. But the fact that from half to three quarters of Chinese consumers would pay up to US$ 199 for a greener PC is encouraging indeed.

[ » FavBuzz.com] Consumers Polled Want Green Machines -... : Consumers Polled Want Green Machines - InformationWeek BBC News Consumers Polled Want Green Machines InformationWeek - 32 minutes ago Some said they would be willing to pay more for a machine that s easier on the environment. Most people would be willing to pay more, some up to $200 more, for environmentally friendly PCs, according to a report

 [InfoWorld - Business Products, Business Reviews and Analysis] Greenpeace plans protests at Computex: (InfoWorld) - Greenpeace International, the environmental group, plans to protest the use of toxic chemicals in electronics products from mobile phones to PCs at the Computex IT show in Taipei next week. "Greenpeace has been working on the pollution caused by toxic chemicals for quite some time, and one of the most outstanding sources of toxic

[Digital World Tokyo] Greenpeace plans protests at Computex: The environmental group plans to stage events at the World Trade Center in Taipei starting from June 6, to pressure makers of IT products to stop using toxic chemicals in their products, and agree to take their gadgets back and recycle them when users are finished with them.

 [Not-A-Pundit: The Renaissance] Google Looks For Golden Egg: The widely anticipated service could bring in a significant revenue stream to the Internet search giant and eventually work with outside companies, much like eBay Inc.’s (EBAY) PayPal does, according to a report on the online news site Red Herring. Citing a research note from UBS, Red Herring claims the new service would be a shot across PayPal’s bow as it would allow users to buy and sell products on Google Base content site.

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