Pt 3 - Owning Your Tech's Energy Footprint - Katie Singer

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01/04/20 • 72 min

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Over the previous 2 episodes we talked about Electromagnetic radiation effects on biology, and the true cost of the embodied energy of the internet. This is the 3rd installment of conversations with author Katie Singer. Today we’re going to go into dealing with this awareness on a personal level, what we can do ourselves, and how we can adapt our behavior in light of this information.

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Katie Singer is the author of An Electronic Silent Spring

http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/

https://www.ourweb.tech

Episode’s Music

Featured Track on Bandcamp -> “Different Kind of Drug”

Music by Abe Vandenberg

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Links and References:

5G Coming to Your Neighborhood? Here's what you need to know

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/sharon-buccino/5g-coming-your-neighborhood

IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: Exposing and prosecuting a vast, illegal financial scandal behind 5G

https://takebackyourpower.net/irregulators-vs-fcc-interview/

IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: The Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWh3TgCfmaw

Your Netflix habit uses more energy than your fridge

https://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/your_netflix_habit_uses_more_energy_than_your_fridge/

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/

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Magical Egypt

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Katie Singer is the author of An Electronic Silent Spring

http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/

https://www.ourweb.tech

Episode’s Music

Featured Track on Bandcamp -> “Different Kind of Drug”

Music by Abe Vandenberg

Hear All of the Podcast's Featured Music HERE

See Episode Webpage

https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep26-katie-singer

>>>>> Questions about this episode?

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Links and References:

5G Coming to Your Neighborhood? Here's what you need to know

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/sharon-buccino/5g-coming-your-neighborhood

IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: Exposing and prosecuting a vast, illegal financial scandal behind 5G

https://takebackyourpower.net/irregulators-vs-fcc-interview/

IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: The Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWh3TgCfmaw

Your Netflix habit uses more energy than your fridge

https://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/your_netflix_habit_uses_more_energy_than_your_fridge/

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/

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Magical Egypt

(go to to this podcast’s Episode 13 with Chance Gardner, released Nov 8, 2018)

You can Save 15% on Magical Egypt with Coupon Code " genuse "

Own Both Magical Egypt Series 1 and 2

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Episode Artwork Photo credit: Riccardo Annandale

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Previous Episode

Pt 2 - Embodied Energy of the Internet - Katie Singer

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“If people remain unaware, in the illusion of the simplicity of sending an email, then there isn’t really a way to move forward until Nature imposes limits on us”

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Where do we get these wonderful toys? What are the hidden costs of the Internet? How do we get silicon wafers for electronics manufacturing?

And while we’re at it, how are we able to download podcasts for free? Or is it free? What is the true cost?

Katie Singer is the author of An Electronic Silent Spring

http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/

https://www.ourweb.tech

Episode’s Music

Bandcamp -> “Easy Life”

Music by Abe Vandenberg

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See Episode Webpage

https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep25-katie-singer

>>>>> Questions about this episode?

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Links and References:

Get informed about the true costs of using a smartphone

http://www.ourweb.tech/campaign/

Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste by Josh Lepawsky

https://www.amazon.com/Reassembling-Rubbish-Worlding-Electronic-Waste/dp/0262535335

Heather White’s award winning film “Complicit” about workers poisoned by benzene and n-hexane

http://www.complicitfilm.org/

Our Web of Inconvenient Truths - Nov 2019 Newsletter

https://www.ourweb.tech/november-2019-newsletter/

Modern Slavery and Your Devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDNfOXBFLA&feature=share

On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117

The Campaign to Reduce Our Internet Footprint

www.ourweb.tech/campaign

Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335083312_Why_do_we_burn_coal_and_trees_to_make_solar_panels

On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117

Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/193149858X

Our Web of InconvenientTruths

https://www.ourweb.tech/stellanatura2020

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Magical Egypt

(go to to this podcast’s Episode 13 with Chance Gardner, released Nov 8, 2018)

You can Save 15% on Magical Egypt with Coupon Code " genuse "

Own Both Magical Egypt Series 1 and 2

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Episode Artwork Photo credit: Ian Battaglia

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What Does This Do For My Soul? with Daniel Thorson

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Daniel Thorson, host of Emerge podcast, and I recorded our first episode together about a year ago and at that time he was preparing to move to the Monastic Academy, which is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.

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In this conversation Daniel and I get into how living and working there affects his life, as well as the people around him; the sense of community and purpose...we explore many topics surrounding the concept of sense making; the process of our “making sense” of the complexity of our modern world and how that can lead to a sense of purpose, or not.

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(a different) Podcast episode called “Reflecting Reflections”,

with me and Daniel Thorson

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Monastic Academy

Emerge Podcast with Daniel Thorson