Apple's Environmental Chief Lisa Jackson Retiring After 13 Years

[MacRumors]

Apple recently announced that its environmental chief Lisa Jackson would be retiring this month, and today she was removed from the company's leadership page.

Since 2013, Jackson served as Apple's Vice President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. In this role, she oversaw Apple's renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives. Apple aims to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030.

Jackson also led Apple's Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, and she was responsible for the company's worldwide Government Affairs team.

"I am deeply appreciative of Lisa's contributions," said Cook. "She has been instrumental in helping us reduce our global greenhouse emissions by more than 60 percent compared to 2015 levels. She has also been a critical strategic partner in engaging governments around the world, advocating for the best interests of our users on a myriad of topics, as well as advancing our values, from education and accessibility to privacy and security."

Prior to Apple, Jackson served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, during President Barack Obama's first term.

Following Jackson's retirement, Apple said that its Environment and Social Initiatives teams would report to the company's operations chief Sabih Khan, while oversight of the Government Affairs team is transitioning to Apple's general counsel.

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[MacUserFella]

She got to get off the roof early! But it looks like Apple’s 2030 plan changed to 2040…

 

[I/0]

I will always remember her as the lady who was forced to announce removing the charger and earbuds from iPhone packaging as it was a good thing 🤣

 

[sc00ba]

Ah yes, I remember Lisa on the roof of Apple Park telling us why we couldn't have a charger in the box with our iPhones because they wanted to be "green" which wasn't a ploy to make us spend even more money on a charger that should've kept coming with the phone.

Good grief🙄.

 

[wikiverse]

Is she the reason we had to replace leather cases with cheap disposable plastic ones?

 

[jz0309]

Happy retirement, well deserved!

 

[nfl46]

Job well done! I hope she enjoys her retirement!

 

[TSE]

She did a great job. Apple is the most environmentally-aware, racially-just company in the world.

Have a great retirement.

 

[zenmacx]

Ah yes, I remember Lisa on the roof of Apple Park telling us why we couldn't have a charger in the box with our iPhones because they wanted to be "green" which wasn't a ploy to make us spend even more money on a charger that should've kept coming with the phone.

This companies expertise with words is impressive. But don’t look now, their “green” actions might not be so virtuous.

 

[b.inazawa-fan]

Good riddance.

 

[4k78]

She did a great job. Apple is the most environmentally-aware, racially-just company in the world.

Have a great retirement.

How do you quantify that?

 

[amaze1499]

What is carbon neutral? A charger I have to get from somewhere else?

Ooooh… now i get it. Yes, Apple is carbon neutral.

 

[TSE]

How do you quantify that?

It's pretty much a given at this point. The amount of time, money, and devotion they put towards them makes them no doubt a step or two above everyone else. Name me another company that beats Apple in those regards.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Did Mother Nature died? Looks like…

 

[Astuces iOS]

She got to get off the roof early! But it looks like Apple’s 2030 plan changed to 2040…

2040 only? I would say 2067 😜

 

[HiVolt]

Yeah great, you took away chargers but continue to make less and less repairable devices and planned obsolescence is thriving.

(Borat Voice) Great Success.

 

[TalkieToaster]

Are they going to stop environmental policies then?

 

[H. Flower]

Ok, now bring back the charging brick and leather.

 

[dejmo78]

Finally, some good news from Apple. Can we now have leather cases back?🙏

 

[emulator]

It's always good to see an overweight person telling us what to do for our environment.

 

[Johnny907]

Hey remember that time they stuck her up on the roof with inappropriate footwear and no safety harness?
Fun times.
Can we have the charging brick back now?
Thanks.

 

[WilliApple]

Wait is this Mother Nature or someone else

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

Mother of nature o7

 

[delsoul]

Is she the reason we don’t get stickers anymore when buying an Apple product?

 

[avro707]

continue to make less and less repairable devices and planned obsolescence is thriving.

But that’s what the customers want. They argue bitterly on forums against computers that can be upgraded easily, for instance. We can’t even easily upgrade or replace SSDs because Apple insists on using bespoke non standard devices. They can’t even decide on a standard solution for Mac Pro 2019, Mac Studio or Mac Pro 2023.

And they deliberately restrict GPU support despite 2019 Mac Pros running beautifully in Windows 11 for Workstations with newer Nvidia and Radeon GPUs. Because of this my next workstations will not be Apple.

Apple is only doing what its fan base cheers them on to do. That you can find on these forums.

Edit: Folks can disagree all they want, but Apple does not make things easy to keep going these days, unlike before where storage was using common standards and you could easily use NVMEs for instance. That is the reality.

Try finding replacement SSD kits for 7,1 Mac Pros… they are not easy to find.