Greenpeace puts HP, Dell, Nokia, and Apple at the top of this year's "Green tech" list

[Tesha]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-57321422-54/greenpeace-puts-hp-in-top-spot-in-greener-electronics-guide/

HP is now the top-ranked tech company, according to Greenpeace's
latest guide to greener electronics.

The guide's criteria has been updated to take into greater account
energy use, conflict minerals, green products, and supply chain
energy use.

Greenpeace released its latest rankings today, showing HP moving
ahead three to the top spot. It's a big leap considering that
just six years ago HP was targeted by Greenpeace as one of the
worst tech companies for using fire retardant materials suspected
of being hazardous. At the time, Greenpeace members stood outside
of HP's headquarters and handed out fliers that said "HP: Harmful Products."

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Apple, which has had a varied relationship with Greenpeace,
moved up five places to fourth place. The company scored zeros
in the categories of clean-energy policy advocacy, paper sourcing,
and using recycled plastics in products. However, it received
kudos for its policy avoiding conflict minerals, having very
energy efficient products, and removing several hazardous
materials from its products. All Apple products, with the
exception of some power cords in certain countries, are
completely free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and
PVC vinyl plastics.

The rest of the rankings were as follows, respectively, from
fifth place to 15th: Philips, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Lenovo,
Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Acer, LG Electronics, Toshiba, and RIM.

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[Tesha]

1. I guess this didn't conform to the current Zeitgeist here that these corporations are all evil? (NT)