Live Earth happened yesterday. Eight concerts in eight different locations to bring awareness about global warming.

All Live Earth venues will be designed and constructed by a team of sustainability engineers who will address the environmental and energy management challenges of each concert site, as well as the operations of sponsors, partners and other Live Earth affiliates. Each venue will not only be designed to maintain a minimum environmental impact, but will showcase the latest state-of-the-art energy efficiency, on-site power generation, and sustainable facilities management practices.

I’d be really interested to see how they’re cutting down their own carbon footprint. Using LED technology for lighting is just one small part. LED’s still use power though and how about the sound systems? There’s no funky LED power saving audio technology about. Then there’s trucking equipment and artists to venues, audience and staff travelling to and from site, broadcast requirements for power and movement, etc etc.

I’d like to see published statistics about what factors were taken into account and what kind of energy was saved, compared to say a standard concert taking place.

Steve Jobs outlined Apples plans to further their already fairly decent plans at becoming green.
It’s quite an interesting read and compares Apples recycling and removal of toxic chemicals and materials from the creation process of their products to other companies, such as Dell, HP and Lenovo.