A Picture is Worth a Thousand Discarded Cellphones…
The amazing “picture within a picture” photographs on Chris Jordan’s website show us in stark visuals how much waste we create on the planet on a daily, hourly and minute-by-minute basis. All the pictures are chilling, but the one that got me the most was the one depicting “426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.”
A half a million cellphones retired each and every day in the United States? Geez oh pete! What are people doing with these cellphones? Dropping them out of 10-story windows? I’ve had mine for a few years now. Let’s get over our constant upgrade addiction, shall we?
I love technology but I am also quite aware of the negative impact it can have on the environment. Still, I think it's technology that has the most potential to save us. Here you'll find articles on the green tech aka clean tech, such as alternative fuel, green computing, and e-cycling. You'll also hear about the "green" and the "tech" - from green household cleaners to why Linux is the progressive operating system of choice.