Ok so I've told you about the San Jose Giants games the Skulpture attended, now its time to take a look at the photos.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/7848385@N04/
 

 Also, if you didn't know already, the student week of action was a HUGE SUCCESS!!! Yea Sam and the over 50 campus' that took part.

This weekend we are rocking an e-waste drop off event in Sunnyvale and Green Festival at the Methodist Church in Los Gatos. Stay tuned for more pictures.

Holla from Cali -- Renee.  

This is what the Spartan Daily had to say about the Toxic Tech Tour.

"Greenpeace, an environmental non-profit organization brought a seven-foot-tall skull made up of old computer parts to bring attention to the issue of electronic waste.

According to Renee Blanchard, a Greenpeace employee, 30 tons of electronic products are discarded worldwide each year. She also said that cell phones have an average lifecycle of two years and that adds to an enormous amount of waste if everyone continues to buy new one each year.

"Old electronic goods are being shipped out to landfills in Asia and being broken down by these families who melt the old electronics and inhale all these plastic toxins," Blanchard said.

Greenpeace is working with 14 electronic companies, including Apple Computers, to create electronics that do not contain Polyvinyl chloride, a toxic chlorinated plastic, and brominated flame retardants used in circuit boards, which can interfere with thyroid and oestrogen hormone systems.

Mica Demarquez, an employee of Crossroads Recycled Clothing Company, said the skull was an interesting art piece and it has the power to bring out awareness."

Hi I'm Renee. I am the Campaign Assistant but for the next month, consider me the Toxic Tech Tour Cheerleader -- of sorts. I am hanging out with Amanda and we are showing off Greenpeace's Skulpture    (a giant sculpture made out of old computer parts in the shape of a skull).  Awesome.

Amanda arrived in the Silicon Valley area one week today. She started out the Toxic Tech Tour at the San Jose Giants baseball game last Friday and officially brought the e-waste skull (we still don't have a name for it) out to play. We were even showed the Apple Ads we made last year on the Jumbo tron.

Our third event for the Toxic Tech Tour was at San Jose State University. The SJSU Environmental Club invited Amanda, Ashby, Richard and I to join them for their school's Sustainability Week event yesterday. We all showed up bright and early to Seventh Street Plaza on campus, but we didn't go alone. We brought the giant e-waste skull with us, again!

Yesterday on campus we placed the skull right next to a great fair trade coffee tasting. . . . hmmm . ..  fair trade coffee . . . !! It was so good. There was even a taste test of tap water vs bottled water. Amanda got it right within seconds.

The day went really well. This 7ft by 17 ft by 6 ft skulpture is a great conversation starter. People stopped by to see what the hell was going on and walked away knowing that we love our apples, we just wish they were greener. We also got some great pictures for the Student Week of Action. Students held my iBook and a speech bubble that said, "SJSU says Steve Score a 10". It wasn't hard to figure out that students at SJSU really want Apple to go green and were surprised to find out they weren't already.

The Toxic Tech Tour is just getting started. We have a couple more events planned in San Jose this weekend. Stay tuned for more from the Amanda and Renee show out here in Silicon Valley.  We will be here until early May when the Apple board of directors and shareholders get together for the AGM in Cupertino.

If you don't know about the Green My Apple campaign, then take a look here.

Also, if you are in the area and have a great place you think the Skull should go, make sure to let us know.

Holla From Cali --- Renee.