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Katie Singer writes about nature and technology in Letters to Greta. She spoke about the Internet's footprint in 2018, at the United Nations' Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation, and, in 2019, on a panel with the climatologist Dr. James Hansen. Her most recent book is An Electronic Silent Spring. www.DearGreta.com and www.ElectronicSilentSpring.com.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Watershed questions Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go?
Wednesday, March 27, 2024Watershed questions Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go?
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
While facing existential threats, what do precautionary actions look like? Here's a pristine example of acting without caution: A few years ago, while my neighbor and I talked near my strawberry patch, a swarm of ants suddenly appeared. "I have a can of poison on my porch!" my friend cried. "Okay," I said, oblivious to potential consequences, focused on the quick solution. In a blink, the ant swarm died. The next time I looked, the strawberry patch was gone, too.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024While facing existential threats, what do precautionary actions look like? Here's a pristine example of acting without caution: A few years ago, while my neighbor and I talked near my strawberry patch, a swarm of ants suddenly appeared. "I have a can of poison on my porch!" my friend cried. "Okay," I said, oblivious to potential consequences, focused on the quick solution. In a blink, the ant swarm died. The next time I looked, the strawberry patch was gone, too.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Imagining a techno-sustainable Palestine First, may every Palestinian have nutrient dense food and clean water, immediately and every day.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024Imagining a techno-sustainable Palestine First, may every Palestinian have nutrient dense food and clean water, immediately and every day.
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Spiritual questions while living in the technosphere When corporations eliminate landlines; build new mines and utility-scale solar, wind and battery-storage facilities on pristine ecosystems; market mobile devices for children; and record our voices to simulate them for AI--where can individuals and households find support?
Friday, February 23, 2024Spiritual questions while living in the technosphere When corporations eliminate landlines; build new mines and utility-scale solar, wind and battery-storage facilities on pristine ecosystems; market mobile devices for children; and record our voices to simulate them for AI--where can individuals and households find support?
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
What choices do we have""when a corporation wants to do business? Nearly every day, I hear about another corporation's proposal to build a new mine, a new large-scale solar facility, a new wind facility, a new battery storage system, a new data storage system, a new generation of wireless access networks, new transmission lines, a new smart metering system or new electric vehicle charging stations-- in order to transition to a greener future.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024What choices do we have""when a corporation wants to do business? Nearly every day, I hear about another corporation's proposal to build a new mine, a new large-scale solar facility, a new wind facility, a new battery storage system, a new data storage system, a new generation of wireless access networks, new transmission lines, a new smart metering system or new electric vehicle charging stations-- in order to transition to a greener future.
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Monday, January 29, 2024
How corporations can "take" endangered species"legally: a tutorial from environmental lawyer Will Falk In December 2023, when a federal judge ordered the Enel Corporation to remove 84 wind turbines from Osage Nation land, I asked environmental lawyer Will Falk about the case's relevance to Lithium Nevada Corporation's (LNC's) mine at Thacker Pass, Nevada. In 2020, Falk and Max Wilbert began trying to stop LNC from constructing a lithium mine at Thacker Pass.
Monday, January 29, 2024How corporations can "take" endangered species"legally: a tutorial from environmental lawyer Will Falk In December 2023, when a federal judge ordered the Enel Corporation to remove 84 wind turbines from Osage Nation land, I asked environmental lawyer Will Falk about the case's relevance to Lithium Nevada Corporation's (LNC's) mine at Thacker Pass, Nevada. In 2020, Falk and Max Wilbert began trying to stop LNC from constructing a lithium mine at Thacker Pass.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
If you could influence our society, what would you do? When I moaned to a friend (who once believed in solar photo voltaics (PVs) and now questions them) about letters to my newspaper claiming that solar PVs emit no carbon and give "energy independence" while my county, state and federal government grant billions for more panels and more batteries, my friend asked, "If you could influence our society, what would you do?"
Tuesday, January 23, 2024If you could influence our society, what would you do? When I moaned to a friend (who once believed in solar photo voltaics (PVs) and now questions them) about letters to my newspaper claiming that solar PVs emit no carbon and give "energy independence" while my county, state and federal government grant billions for more panels and more batteries, my friend asked, "If you could influence our society, what would you do?"
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
How/can we protect the Earth when we need a car? Marketers say that EVs do not emit carbon dioxide while they operate. But isn't that like measuring an elephant's weight by the tip of its tail?
Wednesday, January 10, 2024How/can we protect the Earth when we need a car? Marketers say that EVs do not emit carbon dioxide while they operate. But isn't that like measuring an elephant's weight by the tip of its tail?
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Sunday, December 31, 2023
What does the Earth want from us? What does the land want from us? Does the Earth want federal agencies to create and monitor regulations that decrease our digital footprint? Does the Earth want users aware of the petroleum coke, wood, nickel, tin, gold, copper and water that every computer requires or does it want these things invisible?
Sunday, December 31, 2023What does the Earth want from us? What does the land want from us? Does the Earth want federal agencies to create and monitor regulations that decrease our digital footprint? Does the Earth want users aware of the petroleum coke, wood, nickel, tin, gold, copper and water that every computer requires or does it want these things invisible?
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
Jerry Mander's eight attitudes toward technology In 2014, the late Jerry Mander (author of 1978's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and 1984's In the Absence of the Sacred) organized "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth," a teach-in at Cooper Union in New York City. In his opening remarks, Jerry recommended eight attitudes about technology. They're still totally relevant.
Sunday, December 24, 2023Jerry Mander's eight attitudes toward technology In 2014, the late Jerry Mander (author of 1978's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and 1984's In the Absence of the Sacred) organized "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth," a teach-in at Cooper Union in New York City. In his opening remarks, Jerry recommended eight attitudes about technology. They're still totally relevant.
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
In a dark time, Roethke said, the eye begins to see Last month, after I described my understanding of the events that led to the war that started on October 7th in "Mapping Conflict," I saw several films about Palestine in 1920 and 1948. I began to learn history that I had no idea I did not know.
Sunday, December 24, 2023In a dark time, Roethke said, the eye begins to see Last month, after I described my understanding of the events that led to the war that started on October 7th in "Mapping Conflict," I saw several films about Palestine in 1920 and 1948. I began to learn history that I had no idea I did not know.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Call Me a NIMBY When climate change activist Bill McKibben spoke last month in Santa Fe about climate change and the green building boom, he said that instead of a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) mentality, people should welcome solar panels and wind turbines. "Don't be the person who hires a lawyer," McKibben said, "and gets in the way of the future."
Wednesday, November 29, 2023Call Me a NIMBY When climate change activist Bill McKibben spoke last month in Santa Fe about climate change and the green building boom, he said that instead of a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) mentality, people should welcome solar panels and wind turbines. "Don't be the person who hires a lawyer," McKibben said, "and gets in the way of the future."
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Mapping Conflict, Calling on People Who Can Listen This is a Really short version of a 5000-year-old story.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023Mapping Conflict, Calling on People Who Can Listen This is a Really short version of a 5000-year-old story.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
Exploring humanness during radioactive times: a review of "SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power's Legacy" In the mid-1940s, a small group of scientists learned to split uranium atoms. They applied their newfound knowledge to making and deploying nuclear bombs. When World War II ended, yet other scientists wanted to split uranium atoms to generate electrical power for military operations and public utilities: they wanted to make nuclear reactors to produce plutonium, the basic material necessary for thermonuclear bombs.
Saturday, October 14, 2023Exploring humanness during radioactive times: a review of "SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power's Legacy" In the mid-1940s, a small group of scientists learned to split uranium atoms. They applied their newfound knowledge to making and deploying nuclear bombs. When World War II ended, yet other scientists wanted to split uranium atoms to generate electrical power for military operations and public utilities: they wanted to make nuclear reactors to produce plutonium, the basic material necessary for thermonuclear bombs.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
The world of opportunity in a utility bill A parent who wants to reduce electromagnetic radiation emissions at her children's school asked me for studies that prove that wireless Internet access uses more electricity than wired.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023The world of opportunity in a utility bill A parent who wants to reduce electromagnetic radiation emissions at her children's school asked me for studies that prove that wireless Internet access uses more electricity than wired.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
News from the Technosphere/September 2023 While I finish two essays, I cannot recommend presentations from Max Wilbert and Julia Barnes highly enough. And please read the definitively welcome news from Brazil!
Wednesday, September 27, 2023News from the Technosphere/September 2023 While I finish two essays, I cannot recommend presentations from Max Wilbert and Julia Barnes highly enough. And please read the definitively welcome news from Brazil!
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Defining overshoot and under-reported news from the technosphere Overshoot means extracting raw materials from the Earth faster than it can replenish and wasting faster than the Earth can absorb. Manufactured goods (computers, smartphones, wind turbines, solar PVs, e-vehicles, batteries, air conditioners, refrigerators...) require overshoot.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023Defining overshoot and under-reported news from the technosphere Overshoot means extracting raw materials from the Earth faster than it can replenish and wasting faster than the Earth can absorb. Manufactured goods (computers, smartphones, wind turbines, solar PVs, e-vehicles, batteries, air conditioners, refrigerators...) require overshoot.
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Monday, September 4, 2023
Reframing our thinking about technology and nature lesson ideas for people who depend on water, minerals & computers Lesson One: Explore your technosphere Trace the supply chain of one substance in your computer and share their research. For a list of a smartphone's substances and resources for research
Monday, September 4, 2023Reframing our thinking about technology and nature lesson ideas for people who depend on water, minerals & computers Lesson One: Explore your technosphere Trace the supply chain of one substance in your computer and share their research. For a list of a smartphone's substances and resources for research
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
A sustainable Internet starts with knowing our region's mineral deposits Does creating a sustainable Internet start with every Internet user learning the supply chain of one substance in their computer... and about the mineral deposits in their region?
Wednesday, August 30, 2023A sustainable Internet starts with knowing our region's mineral deposits Does creating a sustainable Internet start with every Internet user learning the supply chain of one substance in their computer... and about the mineral deposits in their region?
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
Where is Your Watershed? Living within ecological means Could any community limit its new infrastructure and tools (substations, telecom access networks, data centers, computers and vehicles) to those made only from materials found within a 500-mile radius? Would any community commit to sustaining itself by keeping what they have in good repair?
Sunday, August 27, 2023Where is Your Watershed? Living within ecological means Could any community limit its new infrastructure and tools (substations, telecom access networks, data centers, computers and vehicles) to those made only from materials found within a 500-mile radius? Would any community commit to sustaining itself by keeping what they have in good repair?
