{"57625":{"#nid":"57625","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Greenpeace: Apple iPhone More Brown than Green","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScientific American.com\u003C\/em\u003E - October 18, 2007 \u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenpeace commented this week about Apple\u0027s failure to make \u0022early progress\u0022 with the iPhone toward the company\u0027s stated goals for ecofriendliness. As technology devices proliferate, it is increasingly important to monitor how they will impact the health of users as well as the environment after they are discarded. \u0022While there is a great deal of discussion of the potentially hazardous components of electronics products, monitoring is rare in the ,\u0022 says Valerie Thomas, an associate professor at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u0022As the Greenpeace report demonstrates, testing is not difficult or expensive.\u0022 To read the complete article, go to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/print_version.cfm?articleID=BA2CE941-976A-BF4F-F737C0FE47796936\u0022\u003EScientific America\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-10-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}