{"id":2393,"date":"2022-04-22T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/its-earth-day-and-apple-website-highlights-progress-in-everything-from-apple-watch-to-imac\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:00:13","slug":"its-earth-day-and-apple-website-highlights-progress-in-everything-from-apple-watch-to-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/its-earth-day-and-apple-website-highlights-progress-in-everything-from-apple-watch-to-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Earth Day, and Apple website highlights progress in everything from Apple Watch to iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">It&#8217;s Earth Day, and Apple website highlights progress in everything from Apple Watch to iMac<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div >\n<p>It&#8217;s Earth Day today, an annual opportunity to demonstrate support for the environment, and to call for policies that help to protect our planet. Apple promotes the occasion as usual with prominent links on its apple.com  homepage . <\/p>\n<p>The company kicked things off earlier this month by announcing that it would donate $1 to the World Wildlife Fund for every Apple Pay transaction made in Apple Stores, through the Apple Store app, or on its website from April 14 to today &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span ><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<h2 >Background<\/h2>\n<p>Earth Day takes place on April 22 each year. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\">This year&#8217;s focal points<\/a> are on The Great Global Cleanup, sustainable fashion, tree planting, and climate literacy. <\/p>\n<blockquote >\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaign\/cleanup\/\">The Great Global Cleanup<\/a> is a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from neighborhoods, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks &#8212; reducing waste and plastic pollution, improving habitats, and preventing harm to wildlife and humans. <\/p>\n<p>The fashion industry is responsible for over 8% of total greenhouse gas emissions. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaign\/sustainable-fashion\/\">Sustainable Fashion<\/a> refers to a clothing supply chain that is ecologically and socially responsible. This is your chance to change the fashion industry away from fast fashion and towards sustainable practices in sourcing and production as well as distribution and marketing. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaign\/the-canopy-project\/\">As little as $1 can plant a tree<\/a>. Home to about 80% of the world&#8217;s biodiversity, forests are collectively the second biggest storehouse of carbon after oceans, absorbing significant amounts of greenhouse gasses. Forests also help to increase biodiversity and protect waterways. They can even improve soil nutrition and provide buffers against natural disasters. <\/p>\n<p>Join us in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaign\/climate-environmental-literacy\/\">the fight for climate literacy<\/a>. It is time to prepare a new generation of workers, students and citizens for the climate crisis. We need public understanding of how to stop climate change and environmental harm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 >Apple&#8217;s homepage emphasizes Earth Day <\/h2>\n<p> The Apple homepage features an environmental-focused heading. <\/p>\n<div >\n<figure ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment- src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/04\/22\/its-earth-day-and-apple-website-highlights-progress-in-everything-from-apple-watch-to-imac\/earth-day-on-apple-homepage\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"1000,507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"' data-image-title=\"Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=655\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1000\" title=\"It's Earth Day, and Apple website highlights progress in everything from Apple Watch to iMac\" width=\"1000\" height=\"507\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?resize=155,79 155w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?resize=655,332 655w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?resize=768,389 768w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?resize=350,177 350w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Earth-Day-on-Apple-homepage.jpg?resize=150,76 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clicking the link leads to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/environment\/\">Apple&#8217;s environment microsite<\/a>, with the environmental credentials of the company&#8217;s products getting the headline. It goes on to describe the company&#8217;s plan to make its entire supply chain carbon-neutral by 2030, as well as other steps the company already takes. <\/p>\n<p>Apple typically promotes through the App Store sources of environmental education, as well as causes people can support, and we&#8217;ll no doubt see this year&#8217;s selections later in the day. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><!-- youtube embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/04\/Its-Earth-Day-and-Apple-highlights-product-credentials.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&#038;quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/04\/22\/its-earth-day-and-apple-website-highlights-progress-in-everything-from-apple-watch-to-imac\/<\/div>\n<p><\/wordaidoc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Earth Day, and Apple website highlights progress in everything from Apple Watch to iMac It&#8217;s Earth Day today, an annual opportunity to demonstrate support for the environment, and to call for policies that help to protect our planet. 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