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Submitted by Mattie Sullivan
May 9, 2012
Apple: Chicago wants a Clean Cloud, too

Last Saturday, nineteen volunteers braved less-than-desirable weather and commuting Cubs fans to deliver a message to Apple: clean our cloud! 

Organizing outside of two of the city’s largest Apple stores, Chicago joined the International Day of Action on Saturday to ask Apple for a cleaner cloud.

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Submitted by Myriam Fallon
May 8, 2012
Philadelphia, and the World, Ask Apple to Clean Our Cloud

“Hi. Do you want to help make Apple more renewable today?”

It was Saturday at 2pm and I was standing in front of the Apple store in Philadelphia with three other volunteers. We were talking to people about Apple’s dirty cloud and asking them to take action right there in the store. 

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Submitted by David Pomerantz
May 7, 2012
A look at the coal plants behind the iCloud

How does Apple’s $1billion iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina draw its power?

Apple is sending millions of dollars a year to Duke Energy, one of the few utilities in the US that is still building coal plants.  

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Submitted by Bethany Cotton
May 7, 2012
King Coal Beware - Citizens, government leaders step up to fight coal exports in Oregon

Today, 600 people rallied in Portland, Oregon against new proposals to export coal through the Pacific Northwest — to date, the largest demonstration in the state on this issue.

Robert Kennedy Jr., Hao Xin, Executive Director of Qiantang River Waterkeeper, Paul Lumley, Executive Director of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and others gave rousing speeches, flanked by signs and banners reading "Export Clean Air," "Fuel of the Dinosaurs," and "Oregonians Say No to Coal Exports.”

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Submitted by Dan Schreiber
May 2, 2012
Activists Block Shipment of Mountain Top Removal Coal

Authored by Gabe Wisniewski, Greenpeace USA Coal Campaign Director.

A set of train tracks in rural North Carolina is not the kind of place that brings iPads to mind.

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Submitted by Justin D'Angona
April 30, 2012
Kids Against Carbon

“I want more soler power,” wrote Maya. Maya is 6 and three quarters, and while she’s still working on her spelling, she is already old enough to understand the difference between Duke Energy NC’s coal-fired power and the energy she and her family need in the 21st century  

Maya has plenty of reason to be concerned about where her electricity comes from.

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