The TH Interview: Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc. Live from OpenWorld
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 11.14.07
TreeHugger had the pleasure to chat with Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc. this morning here at OpenWorld. Watch the video to see what Dell has at the top of their "to do to go green" list, and how they plan to become "the greenest technology company" in the world. ::YouTube and ::OpenWorld
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I understand that Dell is very interesting for the treehugger writers out there, but is it really necessary that every other post is telling us how green this company is supposed to be?
If i wouldn't know any better, I'd start to think that all the covering of the 'green wall' and other Dell bits is actually pretty wel hidden advertisement ;)
Dell is a big-time supporter (financial and otherwise) of Oily George. Can't wash that off you with green hype.
What's ridiculous is how much waste they use to pack their computers. I work in a university IT department and most of the computers the university orders are Dells. (Not that others are much better), but their PCs usually come wrapped in anti-static material, then huge pieces of styrofoam, then the keyboard is in it's own box, the mouse and keyboard each individually wrapped... The amount of trash (even when the box is recycled) is huge for just one brand new PC. We setup several new computers every week, and we're not that big of a university. Imagine how much new computer packaging trash is produced every year just at colleges and universities...
I suppose you'd be happy with receiving a broken computer too right?
I suppose you'd be happy with receiving a broken computer too right?
How shocking - you leaping to the defense of a hardcore Bush supporter.
They come broken anyway - Dell home office products are notoriously garbage. Maybe if Michael focused a little more on producing a decent product than being green, he wouldn't have to worry about all the cardboard and UPS trips they've had to make to ship my piece of crap computers back-and-forth repeatedly!