It bought allot of its green credentials in the form of certificates instead of following Google’s more aggressive direct method. Still it’s nice to see some investment; but clearly it’s not good enough and as always bribery wins the day.

Enjoy your “Green (faced) Power” stamp!

"Still, at least Intel is taking small steps to show it cares, "

Small steps - renewable credits for 50% of the energy consumption is a 'small' step? If it was 100% would you call it slightly better than minor step? Here's a though how about doing a bit of research and see where this 50% falls withing the corporate world before calling it a small step? 

Al Gore plants trees to offset all his private jet trips, yet people don't seem to mention that he continue to use a horrendously inefficient and polluting mode of travel. This is clearly a SIGNIFICANT step and as usual the INQ is rooting for the underdog and trying to belittle and diminish whatever Intel does.