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Apple Releases Environmental Impact Analyses

postedby ericnguyen on October16th,2008 tagged environment, technology

The reports are quite detailed. Here’s the page for all the most recent products. Here’s the PDF for the new MacBook Pro. The Carbon footprint of the MacBook Pro’s entire life cycle is below, for example:

It would be really nice if Apple did analyses on their older products, as well, but they have an incentive (a transparently self-serving one) to keep those less-efficient products and processes hidden.

Regardless, kudos to them for making big efforts to reduce their impact.

Text Beats Voice (October, 2005)
WattzOn: Personal Energy Profile (December, 2008)
John Robb’s “Dissipative Systems” (June, 2008)
Solar Stirling Engine Breaks Efficiency Record. (February, 2008)
Social Costs (November, 2007)

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Sree Says:
October 24th, 2008 at 11:22 am
well, in reality it’s those evil consultants who fly across the country for a one hour meeting that really are gunking up the environment.

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