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Greenpeace: Apple and Facebook not green enough

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According to recent reports, Greenpeace isn't too keen on the fact that Apple doesn't raise climate change issues and doesn't talk about going green too much.

Apple has recently announced out-of-this-world profits despite the fact that it has been involved in ongoing patent battles with its rivals such as HTC, Samsung and Motorola.

The go-green organisation issued its latest Cool IT Leaderboard report which looked at the contributions from tech giants to climate change policies and addressing their own green challenges.

Apple has reportedly did not do nearly enough to even be included in the report. Facebook too was nowhere to be seen either, however, the body said that it recently started coming up with more environmental strategies.

The organisation commented:

"It has not demonstrated leadership or elected to pursue market opportunities to drive IT energy solutions that many of its competitors have, despite record profits and large cash reserves."

Google, as a contrast, has managed to be included in the top of the charts seen as it heavily invested in an array of green projects, including a clean energy policy in the US as well as helping the European Commission to put together slightly more ambitious climate change targets.

Other tech firms that according to Greenpeace are keen on going green is Cisco as well as Fujitsu and Ericsson.

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