   If you 'like' Facebook's news, let them know at our Facebook:
Unfriend Coal page. And invite your friends to join the campaign
- it isn't over yet!   This is big news for our Unfriend Coal
Campaign: over the past 20 months 700,000 of us have campaigned
online and around the world for a greener Facebook. One of the
big reasons for putting pressure on Facebook was that the
company chose to power its first two self-owned data center
primarily with coal.  So it was a big sign of progress when news
reached us that Facebook’s spokesperson Michael Kirkland was
quoted saying that the Luleå datacentre:    We often get asked,
especially by people new to the Unfriend Coal campaign, about
why getting Facebook to go renewable is such an important issue.
 We've found that most people don’t realise how much electricity
is needed to power our internet-connected lives.  A lot of
digital life now exists online on “the cloud”, whether its
email, streaming video, or our Facebook status updates.  The
cloud is run, in part, by