CorpWatch Greenwash Awards
Laptop Battery CorpWatch gives out bimonthly Greenwash awards to corporations that put more money, time and energy into slick PR campaigns aimed at promoting their eco-friendly images, than they do to actually protecting the environment. Nominations for these Awards come from our audience.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
Thinkpad green*wash: (n) Disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible public image. Derivatives greenwashing (n). Origin from green on the pattern of whitewash. -The Tenth Edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Why do we give out Greenwash Awards? A few reasons:
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Microsoft Truth.
laptop computers is driving strong sales for notebook computers, according to the latest quarterly sales figures from the research firm IDC, which reported a 37% computer sales for the second quarter, compared with a year earlier. In the U.S., laptop sales grew 17.7%, while sales of desktop computers and servers fell 4%. The New York Times ( 10), CNET ( 10)
Laptop Computers Many of the claims made by corporate environmentalists are misleading. With the Greenwash Awards, we research and document the reality behind the rhetoric, to reveal the true corporate role in various environmental and human rights issues.
"Computer industry analysts estimate that some 60 percent of all corporate data exists only on desktop and laptop computers, " said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Incorporating Acronis True Image with New Mexico Software backup server is the ideal solution to capture that corporate data and ensure that it is not lost. While traditional server backups are effective for protecting server data, every company should have a combination of server and workstation backup plans."
Laptop Computer Children.
And then, of course, we have the Standalone Server product, which is called Acronis True Image Server for Windows or Linux and that will manage a single standalone server. What type of computers can we back up, because in a medium to a large sized, even some small sized businesses, who knows what kind of computers they have They may have laptops, they may have desktops, they may just have anything and everything
Desktop Computer Some of these PR campaigns are so slick, a credulous viewer might start to believe that all will be well, if we just leave it to the giant corporations. Should our children grow up thinking that Shell will reverse global warming, Philip Morris is the solution to domestic violence, and Monsanto our best hope to eliminate world hunger?
Notebooks Politics.
Lenovo Behind the green PR is a deeper corporate political strategy: to get the world's governments to allow corporations to police themselves through voluntary codes of conduct, win-win partnerships and best practices learning models, rather than binding legislation and regulation. We call the corporate strategy of weakening national and international environmental agreements while promoting voluntary measures Deep Greenwash. As part of our mission of holding corporations accountable, the Greenwash Awards help expose the global corporate political agenda.
Hard Drive Fun.
Travelstar Everyone should spend a little time each month poking fun at and unmasking the pretentions of corporate polluters. It's good for the spirit.
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