If addressing societal inequality and disenfranchisement motivates you, social entrepreneurship or working for a business with a corporate responsibility focus are worth exploring!
From Earth911's Christina Caldwell: When European countries are done using their computers, cell phones and other technology, a large chunk of it w...
In the past five decades, the media have covered a host of ecological topics, from environmental science to the ways consumers can live greener lives. But they have failed to explain their own contribution to environmental problems.
Not far from the heart of one of Africa's biggest cities, Accra, Ghana, black clouds of toxic smoke rise from an outdoor recycling operation that is converting America's used computers into copper, gold and other useful materials.
LAS VEGAS -- Inside the mad hum of the convention center, an overwhelming array of gadgetry confronts attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show, a sh...
From EarthTechling's Angeli Duffin: With the amount of e-waste reaching astonishing heights, the possibility of self-healing electronics is too goo...
As 2012 begins, I would encourage the innovators in this field to pause -- to make a resolution for more sustainable paths forward in the development and deployment of electronic textiles.
We know the mantra well: "Reduce, reuse, recycle." But recycling certain household items may be trickier than you think.
The federal government must lead by example and it should have assured us that all of its e-waste would henceforth be recycled domestically. Unfortunately, it did not.
On Wednesday, the U.S. government launched a new initiative to push for the responsible and sustainable management of electronic products -- from gree...
To effectively tackle e-waste, we need to think about everything from how to design more efficient and sustainable technology, to making sure consumers have widespread access to recycling drop off locations and other options for donating or recycling used electronics.
Residents of North and South Carolina can no longer toss their old laptops, flat-screen TVs or a host of other unwanted gadgets out with the trash sta...
There's a world of reasons for industry and customers to seek new business models and better stewardship over e-production, e-gadgets and e-waste.
Coloradans who buy new electronics this holiday season can legally dump their old computers, cellphones and other electronic waste in the trash. On...
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Get a new flat-screen TV for Christmas and wondering what to do with the old console? Finally replacing that turntable with an...
As journalists and scientists risked their lives to expose e-waste atrocities, coalitions formed to create consumer information and policy language to address the global problem of electronic trash.
e-Waste is a difficult problem when it comes to keeping it out of waste streams. Unlike typical recycling with a blue bin offered in practically every...
Anti-sweatshop activists have blasted Apple for ignoring exploitative, perhaps severely poisonous, working conditions at United Win Technology, a facility in Jiangsu Province apparently connected to Apple Computers.
In a candid session on energy and the environment at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, the world's lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres ...
Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. It seems like a good thin...
We all know old electronics shouldn't be thrown away with the coffee grounds or recycled with the newspapers, but most of us aren't really sure what t...
Most of those power bricks you have plugged into the wall are sucking power even if they're not connected to whatever device they're meant to power or charge.
The champions at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver can stand on the podium proud of their achievements, but the eco-minded among them can be extra...
Recycling is one of the easiest steps you can take toward living green--but some recycling matters more than others.
The scale is astounding. One estimate is that at Indians generated at least 383979 metric tons of e-waste in 2007. And by 2011, it will have climbed to over 400,000 tons.
