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Apple Stores Celebrate Earth Day With Green Logos and Staff T-Shirts

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In honor of Earth Day next Friday, April 22, Apple has updated the logos of over one hundred of its retail stores with green leaf accents in countries around the world, and provided retail employees with matching green t-shirts to wear. Apple is also promoting stores that run on 100% renewable energy with new signage.

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Apple Store photos shared by Instagram users Pierre Atruz and Ethan Masselli​

Many customers have shared pictures of the green-leafed Apple logos on Instagram and Twitter at stores in the United States, Australia, Belgium, China, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, and other countries. Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts also tweeted some photos of the new green t-shirts.Apple Store logos are typically illuminated green on Earth Day itself, but Apple is kicking off its support one week earlier this year on the same day it switches from plastic bags to paper bags. Apple has advised staff members to ensure that supplies of any remaining plastic bags are depleted before switching to paper bags.

Apple has heavily emphasized its environmental responsibility over the past month. At its iPhone SE event last month, Apple environmental chief Lisa Jackson said the company's goal is to "become 100% renewable in 100% of our operations worldwide," including all of its corporate offices, retail stores, and data centers.

Yesterday, Apple launched an "Apps for Earth" promotion in support of the World Wildlife Fund and released its annual environmental responsibility progress report [PDF] covering the 2015 fiscal year. Notably, Apple's recycling initiatives have allowed it to recover over $50 million in gold, copper, and other metals.

Update: While some have suggested that the new seasonal green t-shirts may go against the idea of environmental friendliness, a retail employee informed us that Apple has supplied team members with multiple shirts that will be used for the "foreseeable future." The employee also said that Apple recycles t-shirts each time it changes colors, while some take their old t-shirts home for personal use.

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Is it just me or does it seem like Lisa Jackson has an oversized role at Apple? Some how under Jobs Apple was able to be good stewards of the environment without needing some executive level environmental czar.
 
BvizioN said:
I think you are looking at the wrong end of the stick.
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The fact is that he may be right. They could be wearing the same clothes they've always used. All in all, it is good to see a company like Apple trying to raise environment awareness.
 
Rogifan said:
Some how under Jobs Apple was able to be good stewards of the environment without needing some executive level environmental czar.
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Jobs and environment? If I remember correctly, he was only really concerned about Apple’s environmental policy during the last three or four years of his life, most of which he was not even at the helm. They made a big deal of it with the first unibody MacBooks in 2008, but not really before. That was the first product where they even mentioned the environmental checklist.
 
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KALLT said:
Jobs and environment? If I remember correctly, he was only really concerned about Apple’s environmental policy during the last three years of his life, most of which he was not even at the helm. They made a big deal of it with the first unibody MacBooks in 2008, but not really before. That was the first product where they even mentioned the environmental checklist.
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Well maybe I'm remembering wrong then. Anyway i still think it gets oversized attention inside the company now. They have big ideas on the environment but when it comes to something like improving the App Store the big idea is letting developers pay for better placement?!?
 
Not mentioned in the article: all of Apple's Earth Day T-shirts will be 1 mm thinner than last year's. To accomplish this amazing feat, glue was used instead of thread for the seams. Nobody complained about last year's shirts being too thick, making them 1 mm thinner serves absolutely no practice purpose, and the glue is actually less environmentally friendly than thread, but we're talking about Apple here.
 
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autrefois said:
Not mentioned in the article: all of Apple's Earth Day T-shirts will be 1 mm thinner than last year's. To accomplish this amazing feat, glue was used instead of thread for the seams. Nobody complained about last year's shirts being too thick, making them 1 mm thinner serves absolutely no practice purpose, and the glue is actually less environmentally friendly than thread, but we're talking about Apple here.
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No worries, Liam’s sibling for disassembling the T-shirts is being developed as we speak.
 
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I highly praise Apple's stand on environmental protection. However, should we consider such promotion as encouraging protection?

Anyway, I am staying at a country which is already the front line of climate change. God d**** knows why this summer is so hot...
 
QWERTYMac7 said:
I was around for the first Earth Day.

It was to celebrate Vladimir Lenin's birthday and warn us of global cooling.

It's was a way to promote communism in America's youth.

It's a TOTAL scam.
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Earth Day has nothing to do with global warming. It has to do with treating the planet right. I don't care whether her you believe in climate change or not, but I think we can all agree that pollution isn't good, we'll run out of oil eventually, and we're running out of clean water and food to feed everyone.

But side note, the planet has had 373 consecutive months of above average temperatures, and the 16 warmest years on record came in the last 18 years, with 2015 and 2014 being the warmest and second warmest.
 
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Eh, they got me for the Hearthstone Hero Khadgar. 5$ and it goes to the WWF. Good enough for me. "Knowledge is power..."
 
dannyyankou said:
But side note, the planet has had 373 consecutive months of above average temperatures, and the 16 warmest years on record came in the last 18 years, with 2015 and 2014 being the warmest and second warmest.
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... and that's the kicker. On record for what, the last hundred or so years? The planet is a lot older than that. For man to think he is affecting the climate is not only arrogant but based on very limited observable conditions and theories.

There is no doubt that we are in a warming trend but to take the leap that man is causing it is just a dumb assumption to make.
 
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AppleFan360 said:
... and that's the kicker. On record for what, the last hundred or so years? The planet is a lot older than that. For man to think he is affecting the climate is not only arrogant but based on very limited observable conditions and theories.

There is no doubt that we are in a warming trend but to take the leap that man is causing it is just a dumb assumption to make.
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It's not a dumb assumption, it's science (you know, studies done by scientists that know about science). They've done tests on smaller scales that confirm CO2 traps heat insulates, causing temperatures to increase.
 
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