Philip Houska Apple and the environment is quite a powerful combination that now takes on a new dimension. The company has announced that it has joined a global initiative to draw energy from renewable sources. It is called RE100 and it motivates companies all over the world to power their operations only with energy from renewable sources.
As part of the Climate Week conference in New York, Apple's participation was announced by its vice president for the environment, Lisa Jackson. She reminded, among other things, that in 2015 it was 93 percent of all global operations operated precisely on the basis of renewable energy sources. In the United States, China and 21 other countries, it is currently even equal to 100 percent.
"Apple is committed to running on 100 percent renewable energy, and we're happy to stand alongside other companies working toward the same goal," said Jackson, who noted that Apple has already completed construction of a 50-megawatt solar farm in Mesa, Arizona.
At the same time, the Californian giant tries to ensure that its suppliers also use resources that are practically inexhaustible by mankind. For example, the manufacturer of antenna tapes for iPhones, the company Solvay Specialty Polymers, commented on this, and it also committed itself to 100% use of this energy.
Great. I wish companies in the Czech Republic would also get involved in such things. In Germany, for example, it is common for most hosting companies to use renewable energy to run their services. If I request something like that from the Czech provider of similar services onebit.cz, they react to it as something unbelievable. Thanks to ČEZ (a semi-state company) and therefore the local governments, the Czech Republic is still quite behind, while it is a question of competitiveness and independence from unpredictable states, such as, for example, Russia. That is why it would be very important for this to become one of the priorities of the Czech Republic.