8 posts and columns on environment

From iPods to Thermostats: Nest CEO and Founder Tony Fadell Speaks! (Video)

in News on November 29, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

What does the iconic music player have in common with the device you use to regulate the heat in your home? A lot more than you think.
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Kiva.org Doles Out Micro Loans that are the Color of Money

in Commerce on April 21, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

Kiva.org, a micro-lending site that connects lenders with borrowers, is announcing a new loan category called Kiva Green Loans (and it’s not called that after the color of money). The green loans will be for “green” businesses and individuals, who are trying to reduce their impact on the environment around the world. The new loans are for businesses that include such things as recycling or the switching to organic fertilizer. As with most micro-loans, the amounts can be as small as $25.

Sprint Hopes To Find Green with Eco-Friendly Android Device

in Mobile on April 15, 2011 at 11:09 am PT

Sprint is scaling its environmental effort up to the smartphone market, introducing its first “green” Android device, the Replenish. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was in San Francisco on Friday to talk about the new phone and the company’s broader environmental efforts.

Tony “Father of the iPod” Fadell Leaves Apple

in Mobile on March 30, 2010 at 5:45 am PT

Nearly a year and a half after stepping down as senior vice president of Apple’s iPod division, Tony Fadell is leaving for good. Fadell, one of the chief architects of Apples’s audio strategy, had been working as an adviser to CEO Steve Jobs since being replaced in November 2008 by former IBM exec Mark Papermaster. Now his time in that diminished role has ended, and Fadell is moving on.

Dell Green, All Right–Green With Envy

in News on December 22, 2008 at 5:10 am PT

I’m not sure which is more surprising: that Dell would publicly criticize Apple’s environmental claims in a post to the company’s Direct2Dell blog or that anyone would pay any attention whatsoever to that post, which is poorly researched and as unwieldy and silly as late ’90s-era Inspiron.