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Polluter Pays2 comments

svtc2008 wrote 5 months ago: The state of California is in a financial crisis. We are $24 billion in the hole and lawmakers are s … more →

Tags: Advocacy, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, California, dtsc, Energy, green economy, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Asssesment, persistent organic pollutants, polluter pays

Green Jobs Platform5 comments

svtc2008 wrote 6 months ago: Why is the Green Jobs Platform for Solar important? SVTC has high hopes for the solar energy industr … more →

Tags: Advocacy, solar, SVTC's Journey to India, e-waste, electronic waste, Environmentalism, GJP, Green Jobs Platform, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

May Day, is Anybody Listening?

svtc2008 wrote 7 months ago: As many people know, May 1st is International Worker’s Day. It is also referred to as May Day, and w … more →

Tags: Advocacy, solar, Amanda Hawes, Chemicals, e-waste, electronic waste, Energy, farm workers, farmworkers

Clichés to Save the Day!

svtc2008 wrote 7 months ago: Happy Earth Day everyone! I have been trying to figure out how to write an Earth Day blog that doesn … more →

Tags: Advocacy, activism, Computers, e-waste, Earth Day, Earth Day 2009, electronic waste, Electronics, Environmentalism

Response – DTV Switchover – TV Manufacturers

svtc2008 wrote 9 months ago: For those of you haven’t heard, 681 of the 1,800 TV channels will stop broadcasting in analog next T … more →

Tags: Digital TV Switchover, SVTC's Journey to India, Barack Obama, Citziens at Risk, Digital Television, DTV, DTV SWITCHOVER, e-waste, electronic waste

Good Jobs Green Jobs – Healthy Jobs?1 comment

svtc2008 wrote 10 months ago: Next week, Sheila and I head out to the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference in D.C. It will be an intere … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Digital TV Switchover, solar, China, electronic waste, Export, Good Jobs, green jobs, Lauren Ornelas

Inauguration over, now it’s time to get down to work

svtc2008 wrote 10 months ago: As an African American, I am still reeling from the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Three da … more →

Tags: solar, Barack Obama, e-waste, electronic waste, renewable energy, Sheila Davis, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Solar energy

New Report: A Greener Future for Solar2 comments

svtc2008 wrote 10 months ago: Solar energy may be one of the most important technologies in the 21st century, but the rapid pace o … more →

Tags: nanotechnology, solar, Clean Technology, e-waste, nano, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Solar energy, SuperFund

Obama team to Push Back DTV Switchover?

svtc2008 wrote 10 months ago: The Obama Transition team has encouraged Congress to delay the impending DTV switchover. After the i … more →

Tags: Digital TV Switchover, Lauren Ornelas, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, DTV, Digital Television, obama, Washington Post, John Podesta

Will Manufacturers Listen?

svtc2008 wrote 11 months ago: Although I wasn’t surveyed for the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) new report, … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Lauren Ornelas, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, united states, Santa Clara County, survey, Televisions, TV

Nano in My Neighborhood

svtc2008 wrote 11 months ago: Today we released the findings of the Bay Area Nano Survey. Of the 129 companies that we surveyed, w … more →

Tags: Advocacy, nanotechnology, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Santa Clara County, nano, survey, Bay Area, Monica Cendejas

International Human Rights Day

svtc2008 wrote 12 months ago: Celebrate United Nations International Human Rights Day – December 10, 2008 This December 10th … more →

Tags: Advocacy, India, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, Children, Electronics, united states, United Nations, eWaste

A Look Back at Our 2008 Benefit

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) would like to thank sponsors, guests, and supporters for … more →

Tags: 2008 benefit, India, chintan, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, recycling, Delhi, benefit, event

60 Minutes Segment

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: Last night’s CBS 60 Minutes segment was about electronic waste in China. They showed a film crew att … more →

Tags: Investigations and Exploration, 2008 benefit, India, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, poverty, Delhi, Toxic, Ban, China

Premier of SVTC and Chintan’s Documentary on E-waste and Labor in Delhi, India

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition has finished their journey to India and has brought back a wealth of … more →

Tags: 2008 benefit, India, chintan, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Delhi, Toxics, benefit, event, fundraiser

The Solar and electronic industries are close cousins. Will solar industry adopt the same toxic ways?2 comments

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: At the recent International Solar Power Conference held in San Diego, I tapped a guy on the shoulder … more →

Tags: solar, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, Electronics, SPI, Siemens, Panasonic, Toshiba, IBM

Photos from India

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: Members of SVTC, Chintan, and Saahas at a meeting in India Serena, an SVTC intern, in India sipping … more →

Tags: SVTC's Journey to India, India, chintan, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste, recycling, Environment, recycle, Delhi

From Delhi to Hong Kong

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: It is still on hard to reconcile the differences between places like Delhi and Hong Kong. The high r … more →

Tags: SVTC's Journey to India, India, Hong Kong, Lauren Ornelas, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Delhi, Toxics, Toys, Young workers

Response to the GAO Report

svtc2008 wrote 1 year ago: Groups have been reporting for years that electronic waste has been exported out of the United State … more →

Tags: Investigations and Exploration, Asia, Ban, Basel Convention, chintan, dismantle, e-waste, Exports, GAO


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