[HacktionLab] Strawberry TARTS - The Adaptable, Recycled Teaching System

[Mick Clearerchannel]

Thanks mp!
Some great links there!


On 25/01/15 12:31, mp wrote:
> Hey,
>
> This site might give you some figures:
>
> "Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is a diverse non-profit organization
> engaged in research, advocacy and grassroots organizing to promote human
> health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the
> high-tech industry."
>
> They used to provide useful data, some ten years ago. They're still at
> it, but no idea what/who they've become.
>
> http://svtc.org/
> http://svtc.org/our-work/e-waste/
>
> You can also look at http://globalrec.org/ :
>
> "The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers is a networking process supported
> by WIEGO, among thousands of waste picker organizations with groups in
> more than 28 countries covering mainly Latin America, Asia and Africa."
>
> You might also get some useful references/sources/links etc. from
> Federico, who's been an activist on this stuff for years:
>
> http://www.degrowth.org/federico-demaria
>
> cheers,
> mp
>
> On 25/01/15 12:46, Mick Clearerchannel wrote:
>> On 23/01/15 21:31, Mick Clearerchannel wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Is anyone up for collaborating on a bit of a project that promotes Free
>>> Software and education on recycled laptops.
>> I'm looking back through archives and wiki about the issue of low power
>> computing, green computing, etc.
>>
>> There's these out there.
>> http://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/TTFA2:_Green_Computing
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/green-computing/
>>
>> Beyond that, I haven't found that much, certainly recently so I wanted
>> to ask if people have any links or if they have been doing any recent
>> research on this.
>>
>> I'm especially interested in trying to put some figures on
>>
>> * human cost of e-waste
>> * environmental cost of e-waste
>> * impact of reuse, recycling initiative.
>>
>> If people post links I'll put them on the wiki here.
>> http://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/GreenComputing
>>
>> nice one
>> Mick
>>
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