{"id":192,"date":"2007-05-02T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2007-05-02T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T18:02:45","slug":"greenshines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/greenshines\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenshines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs just put out an [open letter][1] laying out the plans for Apple to become more environmentally-neutral. It&#8217;s an interesting read, and it&#8217;s great to see that Apple has worked and will work to get a lot of the poisonous garbage out of it&#8217;s systems.<br \/>\nThere were a couple of things that I did not know before.<br \/>\n* If you bring your old iPod to any Apple Store to recycle, they&#8217;ll take off 10% of a new iPod. They&#8217;ll be extending that program this year by allowing you to mail it in.<br \/>\n* Apple pretty much eliminate lead from it&#8217;s manufacturing chain by eliminating <acronym title=\"cathode ray tube\">CRT<\/acronym> monitors.<br \/>\n* This one is obvious, but it never occurred to me before: lighter machines mean less waste. As items get smaller, not only do they take up less material, but they also leave less of a footprint on the environment. Sure this one is kind of a *duh* moment for me, but I just hadn&#8217;t considered it.<br \/>\nThis was basically a way for Steve to tell [Greenpeace to shove it][2]. They&#8217;ve been singling out Apple for not being green, and letting other computer companies with future plans for reducing waste to slide. I can&#8217;t wait until someone else [pisses off Steve.][3]<br \/>\n[1]: http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/agreenerapple\/ &#8220;These open letters are great.&#8221;<br \/>\n[2]: http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/apple.ars\/2006\/12\/07\/6206<br \/>\n[3]: http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs just put out an [open letter][1] laying out the plans for Apple to become more environmentally-neutral. It&#8217;s an interesting read, and it&#8217;s great to see that Apple has worked and will work to get a lot of the poisonous garbage out of it&#8217;s systems. There were a couple of things that I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-subjects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}