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- '60 Minutes': Crew comes under attack (Part 4)
- Scott Pelley and his crew are attacked and threatened with violence by area gangsters who don't want the e-waste story told.
- Tags: Crew, E-waste, Attack, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, gangsters
- Videos 2008-11-10
- '60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)
- Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.
- Tags: Toxin, E-waste, Computer, Productivity, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, lead
- Videos 2008-11-10
- '60 Minutes': Walking through a toxic village (Part 2)
- Piles of electronics blanket the Chinese countryside waiting to be recycled.
- Tags: Minute, Electronics, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley
- Videos 2008-11-10
- '60 Minutes': Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)
- Scott Pelley takes a tour of GRX, a Denver electronic waste recycling company, that is a member of 'E-Stewards.' That's a stringent program run by a watchdog group, The Basel Action Network, to certify ethical recyclers who do not ship their toxic materials overseas.
- Tags: Recycling, Scott Pelley, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste
- Videos 2008-11-10
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- What's a brick?
- CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...
- Tags: ash, fly ash
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...
- Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
- Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics
- .. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...
- Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- America backs away from the Internet with a whimper
- Just like how the EU workswhen they do not agree on something, the bargining, voting, referendums, treaties, et cetera begin.And nothing gets done. I guess the internet will now become another thing to be bargin, bantered, discussed, and not agreed apon.Yes, the future looks so bright for it. I wonder,...
- Tags: Mediterranean, Internet, parody, Dana
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Apple declares its environmental credentials
- Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...
- Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Toxic caulk syndrome
- Toxic shock syndrome was a killer in its day. Now the EPA is warning of toxic caulk...in schools plus other buildings that nobody ever inspects. Why bad caulk? The old stuff off-gases PCBs. Chalk another one up for the petro-chemical industry that create poisons faster than...
- Tags: Syndrome, Regulations, Strategy, Government, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Nuclear power has political meltdowns
- Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...
- Tags: Nuclear Waste, nuclear energy, political meltdown, reactor, meltdown, government, nuclear waste
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...
- Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Is there a green fossil fuel?
- The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...
- Tags: Coal, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Interest, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Green storage has limited ROI, but supports overall efficiency
- Green storage has limited ROI, but supports overall efficiencyI sure hope you're wrong.Nobody pollutes more than poor people. After decades of communism, most of Eastern Europe was left a toxic waste dump. People who live at near subsistence levels really don't care about their impact upon the environment;...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, ROI, storage
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Open letter to all HR software vendors
- HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...
- Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Greenpeace guest post: Time for real IT Leadership in tackling Climate Change
- When Greenpeace first started campaigning on the electronics sector in 2005 we wanted to see companies change the way that products were made, used and disposed of to tackle the massive amounts of toxic e-waste being dumped in developing countries. by James Farrar
- Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, Electronics, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Would you go the extra mile to get rid of an old computer responsibly?
- Would you go the extra mile to get rid of an old computer responsibly?The dump works good for me....Throw it away and be done, I have heard enough about how the earth is ending and if we do not stop eating meat, driving, using A/C we are all doomed.I can't...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, extra mile, old computer, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- E-waste watchdogs have hackles up over proposed bill
- E-waste watchdogs have hackles up over proposed billRegarding E-waste, this just shows ushow out of touch MS are when they think they can force Vista down everybody's face and make them buy bigger hardware for no benefit.Markets that create toxic waste etc should never be artificially driven.
- Tags: E-waste
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
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