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Apple adds more green energy
Since taking over as Apple CEO, Tim Cook has used the company's massive resources to do some truly transformative things with clean power.
Not only is Apple corporate 100% carbon neutral, the company is quickly bringing along its suppliers, too -- which is, frankly, where most of Apple's carbon footprint lies.
This morning, the company announced that its suppliers doubled their usage of clean power in the last year, and that more than 200 suppliers have committed to renewable energy.
Apple said these pledges are "accelerating" its goal to be carbon-neutral across the entire supply chain by 2030. It's a laudable goal: Worldwide, manufacturing is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases.
Apple's not alone. Many of the big tech companies -- including Google, Facebook and Microsoft (but not Amazon, which is a laggard) -- are using green power for manufacturing and running massive, power-hungry data centers. According to Greenpeace, tech companies are forcing utilities to drop coal and go green by demanding clean power. So it's helping to transform the energy sector, too.
In the absence of government action, it's surprising that the private sector is taking up the mantle for climate change. But it is, and Tim Cook is at the forefront of it.
-- Leander Kahney, EIC.
The iPhone-maker itself is investing in more green energy projects, too. The clean power moves are accelerating Apple's goal of being entirely carbon-neutral across the entire supply chain in less than eight years.
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"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed." -- Steve Jobs
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