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Greenpeace Activists Arrested for a Prank Using This Giant Pod Outside of Apple HQ

May. 16, 2012 11:05am Liz Klimas

Greenpeace Projects Clean Energy Messages onto Apple Headquarters Wall from Survival Device| Two Arrested

Two protesters inside the pod outside of Apple's headquarters were arrested Tuesday. (Photo: Greenpeace via Facebook)

Beginning Monday night and carrying on into early Tuesday morning, Greenpeace activists outside of Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters staged a protest against the company’s “unclean” energy practices. The protest included a pod with Apple’s logo that projected messages onto the building.

Two of the protesters inside the pod were arrested and taken to the Santa Clara County jail, according to Wired. The messages projected onto the entrance of the building included phrases like ”just stop using coal” and “be part of the next century, not last,” CNET reported.

Throughout Monday night into Tuesday morning Greenpeace protesters projected images messages onto Apple's California building. (Photo: Greenpeace via Facebook)

The protest was part of Greenpeace’s “Clean Our Cloud” campaign, which seeks to raise awareness about the amount of energy data centers use. Apple has said it will be incorporating some renewable sources of energy at its North Carolina center. Wired has more on Apple’s facility and the Greenpeace protest against it:

Apple’s iCloud service — a means of storing photos, videos and other files online — is backed by a 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina, and this facility is powered by Duke Energy, a utility that gets 46 percent of its power from coal and 52 percent from nuclear facilities. Though Apple says its Maiden facility will soon use 60 percent renewable energy — the company is installing a solar array and biogas plant next to the data center — Greenpeace wants more from the company.

The organization says Apple should commit to running the entire facility on renewable energy, even as it expands the footprint beyond 500,000 square feet. With its data centers in Iowa and Oklahoma, Google has signed long-term contacts for renewable energy, and Greenpeace is asking that Apple do the same. “If Apple had something like that,” Gary Cook, an IT analyst with Greenpeace, recently told us, “that would be something that would give us a lot more confidence in their intentions.”

It is reported there were also four protesters from Greenpeace outside of the pod. They were not arrested. (Photo: Greenpeace via Facebook)

Wired also notes that Apple has been a favorite target by the environmental advocacy organization of late, with it protesting Apple stores in San Francisco, New York and Toronto on April 24.

You may also recognize the pod used by the protesters in this latest stint. According to Apple Insider, the 8-by-10 “survival device” also made an appearance at Greenpeace’s protest of against Arctic drilling.

Here is a Greenpeace production advocating against the use of coal at Apple’s iCloud facility:

This story has been updated from its original posting to correct that Apple is incorporating renewable energy sources to its already completed North Carolina data center.

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Comments (29)

Bighappy
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:29pm
I’m not a big support of apple. However, plopping ones butt in side a container then using a device that consumes power is pretty much defeating the point isn’t it? If you are anti-coal, anti-CO2 anti-(insert destructive force here) you probably should not use devices that have come from that form. While wind power and solar power generation are all great fine and good, they have many more limitations compared to coal, oil, NG, and nuclear generation. Stopping a train from delivering coal doesn’t hurt JUST! apple. you are effecting all of the people that rely on the power coming from that plant. If you where to just watch the video one would thin that whole plant powers just apples data center. Also delaying a train will cause other delays. other trains shipments that need that rail now have to stop and are unable to move. The engines that are moving that coal are now delayed for other kinds of freight that will need to be moved. the Batteries that their GREEN cars require will be delayed. so when they need to replace them, OH well, guess they shouldn’t have stopped that train eh? They need to get help for their greif and stop playing the blame game. Their relatives knew of the risks and dangers when they went in to the coal mines. People need to stop playing the blame game. Anyway, Sorry for the Rant. Troll a way.

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bigdaddyt46
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 8:54am
screw it!!!! if i had ben the train conductor i’d have kept the train rollin’ then explain that i did not see them on the track as i’m hosing down the wheels.

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pwatkins
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 1:47am
Like I have said many times Gov. Purdue of NC is Hellbent on assisting Obama and his Greenpeace goonies in destroying our country piece by piece. These commies are what is being considered job growth…getting paid as professional protesters(liars for the marxists and communists).

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Glock31
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:16pm
greenpeace can go to hell

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AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 6:01pm
Idiots, why do they waste their time and make fools of themselves instead of getting jobs and actually contributing to society? Because they’re Obama-loving idiotic liberals!

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CHHALL3
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 4:33pm
I guess the greenpeace idiots in the pod did not realize that it is made out of plastic which, in part, is made from oil…

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RightThinking1
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 4:21pm
Watermelons, plain and simple.

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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:53pm
Stop using coal and send America back to the 1800′s? These people are insane. Carbon dioxide feeds our plants, our crops, our trees…volcanoes over the centuries have put more stuff in the air than we could ever dream of in America or the world! This is ludicrous and simply control on steroids.

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frankthekulak
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:47pm
Coal fired komputers are the wave of the future, komrades!

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jackact
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:13pm
Wait a minute, Isn’t this Joe Biden’s birth pod?

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- billypol
  Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:05am
  NO, He hatched from a pile-not a pod.
  
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OneTermPresident
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:22pm
Greenpiece of sh.. just another part of the Loons on the Left.

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kaydeebeau
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:16pm
wonder why the greenies don’t use sail powered boats or if they realize that fossil fuels go into use for the production of everything they have on their pathetic selves or the food they eat?

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blackyb
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:54am
Those activists should take a bath and brush their teeth to clean the air.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:53am
Next time they are on the ocean….I hope a whale tips their boat over.

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miren
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:45am
Man, if I were there I would have gone up to the lady in the oversized iphone outfit she was wearing and just kept pressing in the screen and press harder, and harder cause the Damm thing wont work and eventually Tip her over. Ha!

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Tri-ox
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:44am
Yawn. Greenputz is nothing but an obama propaganda group – so lame.

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tckid17
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:37am
Steve Jobs built Apple to be environmentally friendly. HEY GREENPEACE, THINK DIFFERENT!

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raderby
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:29am
deport them to Mexico, or any place that will take them – they will be in prison for their type of actions within a week.

Or, we could go after them to the letter of the law – “license and registration” would be a good start.

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SREGN
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:29am
Make them all get jobs.

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- Taquoshi
  Posted on May 16, 2012 at 2:04pm
  They do have jobs – harassing the rest of us.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:26am
When renewable’s are cost effective, then people & corporations will be happy to implement such technologies.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on May 16, 2012 at 12:40pm
  Yup.
  
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- lantzh
  Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:39pm
  I second that emotion…
  
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vtxphantom
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:20am
Time to bring in some thorium reactors.

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- Bighappy
  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:35pm
  Agreed, It’s a shame that it was not implemented in the 50′s, If it where, there would be no need for coal. Now that, IS, something to think about. Visit the link for more information if you do not know about thorium reactors.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI
  
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Docrow
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:16am
The problem with “unclean energy practices” is who decides the definition of “unclean”.

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- MammalOne
  Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:34am
  more polluting than an alternative?
  
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KickinBack
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 11:16am
I bet the activists organized and communicated with one another via their iphones.

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