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Environment: Apple’s Supply Chain Pollution
Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: Apple Blasted For Alleged Pollution By Suppliers via NPR.
Apple is defending itself against a fresh barrage of criticism from Chinese environmental activists over alleged pollution by the manufacturers who make its iconic iPhones, iPads and other products.
Resource: The Other Side Of Apple II: Pollution Spreads Through Apple’s Supply Chain via Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Faced with an ever evasive Apple, a group of Chinese NGOs decided to dig deeper and carry out further investigations into the environmental problems that exist within Apple’s supply chain. Through five months of research and field investigations we have found that the pollution discharge from this $300 billon dollar company has been expanding and spreading throughout its supply chain, and has been seriously encroaching on local communities and their surrounding environments.
About the IPE:
The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) is a registered non-profit organization based in Beijing. Since our establishment in May 2006, the IPE has developed two pollution databases (water & air) to monitor corporate environmental performance and to facilitate public participation in environmental governance. Our aim is to expand environmental information disclosure to allow communities to fully understand the hazards and risks in the surrounding environment, thus promoting widespread public participation in environmental governance. The IPE is a member of a coalition of NGOs throughout China, promoting a global green supply chain by pushing large corporations to concentrate on procurement and the environmental performance of their suppliers. This ‘Green Choice Alliance’ consumer initiative takes into consideration the environmental performance of manufacturing enterprises while exercising their purchasing power to make green choices.
As distant as China seems, it is part of our backyard now.
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Thriv’Ability: Weddar
Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 27, 2011 at 8:47 pm ET
Resource: Weddar.com, as in “How’s da weddar feel at your house?”
Weddar is the new people powered weather service.
You can report how the weather feels, request weather reports and share it with friends.
Anyone can be a weather reporter now.
Resource via Who Needs a Weatherman? People-Powered Meteorology App Hits iPhone at Mashable.
Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Thrivability
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iPhones May Be Tracking You
Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm ET
Resource: Researchers say iPhones can track users’ movements via the BBC.
Apple iPhones and 3G iPads are secretly recording and storing details of all their owners’ movements, researchers claim.
A criminal’s delight.
Filed under Technology
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Thriv’Ability: Situationist
Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 7, 2011 at 10:12 am ET
Resource: Situationist iPhone App.
“Situationist” creates extra-ordinary situations in your everyday life.
Resource: Don’t like strangers? Situationist for the iPhone wants to change that.
Situationist is designed to encourage people who don’t know each other to interact in public in a number of ways, from giving hugs and high fives, to more bizarre actions like “Whisper your middle name in my ear” and “Scare me”.
You gotta love it!
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No Confessions Via iPhone
Contributed by Rick DeVan on February 9, 2011 at 11:34 am ET
Resource: Catholics cannot confess via iPhone: Vatican via Reuters.
Catholics cannot confess via iPhone and technology is not a substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest, the Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday.
Only our generations would even think of trying to phone it into heaven.
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