"Consumers want to know that when they upload a video or change their Facebook status that they are not contributing to global warming or future Fukushimas."
--Gary Cook, Greenpeace's IT policy analyst and lead author of a recent report on the greenest tech companies. Greenpeace's "How Dirty is Your Data?" report named Apple the "least green" tech company, estimating Apple's dependence on coal to power its data centers at 54.5 percent. Check out the Guardian for more.
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