So .... who, in the electronics industry, is at the forefront in fighting climate change and who is sadly ignorant to the fact that everything is hotting up around them.

Climate Counts is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. They are a nonprofit organization launched in collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet.

They have created a scorecard system to see how serious companies are about stopping climate change - and how they compare to their sector competitors. The annually updated scorecard reflects the self-reported efforts of companies to address climate change - or avoid it altogether.

The higher the score, the greater the company's commitment to fighting global warming.

If you're wired, you know the companies in the Electronics sector well. They make our computers, our TVs, our PDAs, our MP3 players, and our cell phones. The best of these companies have worked to make sure the latest technology is consistent with the most current thinking about corporate climate leadership. They're doing everything from reducing emissions in their production processes, to making products that require less energy, to taking back products that are obsolete and turning them into the next big thing. But the range of scores in the sector is notable; those companies at the bottom of the sector may have a different perspective on what it really means to be "cool" than those at the top.

1) IBM 77
2) Canon 74
3) Toshiba 70
4) Hewlett-Packard 68
5) Sony 68
6) Motorola 66
7) Hitachi 51
8) Samsung 51
9) Siemens 51
10) Dell 49
11) Nokia 37
12) Apple 11

So, whilst companies like IBM, Canon, Toshiba and the like care about the environment we live in it looks like Apple care more about the size of their profits than the size of their footprint.

Maybe we should all think twice and take things like this into consideration before making that next electronics purchase.

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