Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Electronics
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/who-pays-the-price-the-human-cost-of-electronics
This short documentary reveals the hazards of the electronics industry in China profiling workers poisoned by chemicals and their struggle for compensation.
Thousands of young people in China...
Indonesian tin : the dirty secret behind #Apple's and Samsung’s smartphones
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article189.html
Apple, Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung : giants of the electronics industry ... who don’t really seem to know from where some of their raw material comes from. Tin is essential for the welds in the electronic plates of smartphones or tablets. At the other end of the production line, in the Indonesian mines of Bangka which provide 30% of the world’s tin, one person dies each week. This article was originally published in French here. Translation : ℓу∂ιє gυĕzєηgαя. 40 : this is the number of metals (...)
#News
/ #zoom, Apple
►http://www.bastamag.net/article2635.html
▻http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Enquete-sur-les-mines-d-etain.html
▻http://foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/mobile_industry_bangka_31072013
▻http://prix-pinocchio.org/en/nomines.php#apple
A California Desert Town on the Way Up ... to Space - NYTimes
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/science/space/a-california-desert-town-on-the-way-up-to-space.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
the Mojave Air and Space Port, once a Marine auxiliary air station during World War II, now an incubator for the tinkerers and dreamers in the New Space movement. Adherents believe that the next phase of space exploration will be led by nimble, ambitious entrepreneurs — a new generation of people like Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, who helped create the electronics industry in a garage — and that this is their moment to come together and make it happen.
Chain reaction: toxic soil kills bees, threatens food production
►http://www.smh.com.au/environment/chain-reaction-toxic-soil-kills-bees-threatens-food-production-20120416-1x2w
New research by entomologists at the University of California suggests selenium - a trace mineral used as a superconductor in the electronics industry - can kill bees foraging for pollen from plants in heavily polluted areas