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Greenpeace to provide energy in Bihar

By : Sustainability ..., May 17, 2012

A Greenpeace India on Tuesday said that a network of microgrids should be set up to provide energy to all in Bihar through renewable energy sources.

Greenpeace India executive director Samit Aich, while releasing the report at a function here, said that this model of...

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Greenpeace provokes Apple on renewable energy stance

By : Anonymous, May 2, 2012

Greenpeace activists scale the Apple headquarters in Cork City and display a clear message "Clean Our Cloud" to demand that the company switch from coal to renewable energy sources to power their cloud computing data center, as an employee looks on. (Courtesy Greenpeace...

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India's telecom sector fueling emissions

By : sustainabilityo..., May 20, 2011

India's telecommunications sector has emitted more than 5.6 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions since 2008, due to its heavy reliance on diesel for generating power, a new Greenpeace report says.

Figures from India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy show that...

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Subject Tags: Greenpeace , Technology

Greenpeace dishes the dirt on data centres

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 25, 2011

Greenpeace has launched a new report called ‘How dirty is your data?', which looks at energy choices made by IT companies across the globe for their data centres.

Companies looked at in the report include Amazon.com (...

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Bihar broke energy promises: Greenpeace India

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 3, 2011

 

Greenpeace India, the environment protection organisation, has charged Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led coalition government in Bihar with going back on its promises, especially on renewable energy.

The group has said that the government, enjoying a huge...

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Greenpeace seeks Sonia's intervention for redrafting bill

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 22, 2010

Environmental NGO Greenpeace Saturday sought National Advisory Council (NAC) chairperson Sonia Gandhi's intervention for redrafting a proposed legislation that will act as a single window clearance mechanism for GM crops in the country.

According to the organisation,...

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Subject Tags: Greenpeace , Social Issues

Greenpeace not LOL over Facebook carbon footprint

By : sustainabilityo..., May 1, 2010

After an emotional breakup with the timber industry, Prineville, Oregon, was thrilled to get friended by Facebook.

The social networking site chose the high-desert timber town of 10,000 to take advantage of its cool nights and dry air in hopes of making its first-ever...

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Greenpeace says the cloud is a carbon polluter

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 31, 2010

A new report from Greenpeace warns that the growth in cloud computing will be accompanied by a sharp rise in greenhouse gas emissions, and calls on big companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google to do more to help the environment.

"The cloud is growing at a time when...

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Coal fuels much of Internet 'cloud,' Greenpeace says

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 30, 2010

The 'cloud' of data that is becoming the heart of the Internet is creating an all-too-real cloud of pollution as Facebook, Apple and others build data centers powered by coal, Greenpeace said in a new report to be released on Tuesday.

A Facebook facility being built in...

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Subject Tags: Greenpeace , Technology

40 percent Indian households still powerless: Greenpeace

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 17, 2009

Despite India's growing electricity generation and increasing carbon emissions around 40 percent of households -- a majority of which are in villages -- do not have electricity, says a Greenpeace report released here Tuesday.

"The total installed generating capacity in...

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