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I held out as long as I could but I finally upgraded my iPhone 6s to a 13 mini. To be honest, the camera and battery life are better but, for my use anyway, it's not that much of a change. There's definitely work to be done on hardware obsolescence, be it deliberate or not.

Noted on the 2nd of October, 2021 Details

Don't Upgrade Your Phone (Yet!)

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Do you need a new phone or can you just replace the battery instead?

Added on the 20th of August, 2021 Details

Plastic Recycling is a scam.

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I never knew the plastics industry had co-opted the recycling symbol in order to reduce people's image of plastic as an environmental issue. Bleak but not particularly surprising.

Added on the 19th of December, 2020 Details

Brussels authorities deny toxic air indicated by their own monitoring stations.

Four years ago, Clientearth and several Brussels citizens took the regional government to court over its lack of any air quality improvement plan. In the final hearing this week, all the government's lawyers managed to do to defend themselves was put the quality of their own pollution measurements into question. It's depressing.

On the contrary, rather than admitting that there is a problem and committing to solve it, the Brussels lawyers in court today have gone as far as discrediting the reliability of air quality measurements carried out by the government’s own environmental agency. In doing so, they expose the residents and workers of this city to unacceptable health risks in their day to day lives.
Linked on the 19th of December, 2020 Details

The carbon footprint sham.

On the hypocrisy and deviousness of the fossil-fuel companies:

It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint" in the early aughts. The company unveiled its “carbon footprint calculator” in 2004 so one could assess how their normal daily life — going to work, buying food, and (gasp) traveling — is largely responsible for heating the globe.

I knew about the anti-litter campaigns being funded by the packaging producers but I didn't know the carbon footprint was a similar industry invention. All created to put the focus on individual responsibility and cloak the oil industry's.

Linked on the 26th of July, 2020 Details

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades.

Recycling delays, rather than avoids, final disposal.

An in-depth look at our humongous plastic problem. Long read but worth it.

Linked on the 2nd of July, 2020 Details