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Three Steps to Greener Computing - Bill Weihl

2008-12-18T18:57:01Z

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Technology expert Bill Weihl recommends three steps consumers can take for greener computing habits.

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The digital age continues to improve our quality of life, but advanced computing technology has thus far meant greater energy consumption that has taken a heavy environmental toll.

This panel of energy experts will explore how computers contribute to and can help solve today's most pressing environmental challenges - The Commonwealth Club of California

Bill Weihl is currently working on clean energy at Google. Before joining Google in early 2006, he was CTO at Akamai Technologies, where he led efforts to provide customers with more powerful computing capabilities on edge servers. He has also worked on distributed and parallel computing and on cpu architecture, first as a professor at MIT and then as a researcher at DEC's Systems Research Center (SRC).

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The dark underside of electronics recycling

2008-11-18T12:35:17Z

Hat tip to Scholars and Rogues for this 60 Minutes story showing the seamy underside of consumer-electronics recycling--as in exporting, in violation of United States law and international conventions, waste electronics components to the so-called "People's Republic of China" under the banner of "recycling."

As in cathode ray tubes from computers.

CPU drives.

Even the motherboards.

And the recycling methods shown are, to put it mildly, Not For the Squeamish or Easily-Offended.

Translating, all in all, to perhaps the single worst concentration of carcinogenic substances found in the local populace anywhere in the world by way of e-waste being torched just to extract recyclable components such as lead, gold, mercury and cadmium, for which peasant farmers as would otherwise be without work earn the equivalent of US$8/diem. And pay the price for it in health damage.

Think about it before you consider replacing your older consumer electronics for newer models, never mind that many states (Minnesota among them) now require consumer-electronics manufacturers to have recycling schemes in place, and to cover the costs of same.

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Apple Macbook Goes Green? | ZapRoot

2009-01-09T04:27:09Z

Apple greens it up with the new innovative MacBook. Glamour plus camping equals Glamping. Check out the weird in Totally Useless Crap.

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Cleantechnica - Green Macbook
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/14/apple-introduces-green-macbooks/
New MacBook
http://earth2tech.com/2008/10/14/the-new-macbook-is-apples-greenest-yet/
Glamping
http://psfk.com/2008/09/glamping-glamorous-camping.html
Bic Disposable Cell Phone
http://psfk.com/2008/07/disposabilitybad-design.html
Laser Park Right
http://treehugger.com/files/2008/08/laser-park-right-wastes-energy.php
Bioxygen
http://bioxygen.net/index.aspx
USB Fragrance Burner
http://unclutterer.com/2008/10/08/unitasker-wednesday-usb-fragrance-oil-burner/
NY Tap Water
http://psfk.com/2008/09/fresh-bottled-nyc-tap-water.html
Square Watermelons
http://treehugger.com/files/2008/08/square-watermelons.php
EcoScraps - Grass Jewelry
http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/11/more-precious-than-diamonds/

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Illegal e-waste exposed

2009-01-09T04:41:59Z

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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/illegal-e-waste-exposed140708

A container of electronic waste (e-waste) from Port of Oakland in the US was intercepted in Hong Kong by Greenpeace activists. After months of research, we determined that the container was destined for Sanshui district in mainland China meaning that - under Chinese law - the import was illegal. Activists boarded the YM Success, pitched a tent on top of the containers and prevented the illegal e-waste from being offloaded.

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Buy it, Use it, Break it, Junk it, it's Toxic

2008-11-12T08:46:05Z

Greenpeace's Cebit Video.

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/electronics/

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Where Your E-Waste Is Going...

2008-11-10T04:48:52Z

Greenpeace has made electronic waste a priority, with a campaign to pressure tech giants into taking more corporate responsibility on everything from computers to printer cartridges.

And while some companies have taken e-cycling strides in the last few years, the U.S. has been too slow to pass adequate legislation and too quick to ship e-waste overseas, where it is disposed of in a highly hazardous way.

Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network have solutions.

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Where does e-waste end up?

2008-10-31T10:49:28Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/where-does-e-waste-end-up

E-waste is routinely exported by developed countries to developing ones, often in violation of the international law. This practice is legal because the US has not ratified the Basel Convention.

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GOOD Magazine: E-Waste

2008-10-14T11:27:22Z

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