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CA Legal Update - May 2006

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Three bills in Sacramento this year are of particular interest.
AB 2202 - Align CA regulation with the ROHS Directive
“This bill expands, by January 1, 2008, the prohibition on the sale of electronic devices that contain certain heavy metals and fire retardants from electronic devices containing larger video monitors to virtually all consumer electronic devices that […]

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Fish Oil?

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Why do my health food store Fish Oil food supplements bear a prominent disclaimer on the front,
“NO mercury, pcb’s or lead” ? Is there anyone in 1966 who could have imagined that forty years later, there would be a general warning for elementary school age children on the consumption of Tuna Fish Sandwiches, and […]

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Prison Labor Investigation

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

A new investigation has been announced of the health and safety practices of the UNICOR Federal Prison Labor program to dismantle and process e-waste. Contentious and often conflicting reports have appeared over the last several years regarding UNICOR prison labor programs. In the open market, models for labor and safety are only beginning to […]

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Summer Books

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Made To Break, by Giles Slade LINK, an SFGate Review
High Tech Trash, by Elizabeth Grossman LINK
Island Press Blog
UPDATE: I just read “High Tech Trash.” It tells in a readable fashion, innumerable stories, facts and figures relating to all aspects of the electronic product explosion, and its unintended consequences. In a single source, names, […]

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Cell Phone Takeback Not Working

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Earthworks, an environmental advocacy group in Washington, D.C. has taken to task the “big four” cell phone providers in a newly released report on the state of cell phone recycling efforts in the U.S., and has launched a campaign to get the attention of the public on the issue.
Recycle My Cell Phone LINK
Cell phones […]

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Chemicals Reform Gets Serious

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

There is a broad policy movement across the European Union to modernize and reform chemical use and limit citizen exposure, based on new science on chemical effects in the body.
In California, a Body Burden “right to know” law is being pressed in Sacramento, SB 1379. A federal law designed to update the 30 year […]

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EPEAT Unveiled

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Members of the US EPA, the Green Electronics Council, the IEEE and others introduced a powerful tool to guide institutional purchasers of electronics in environmentally friendly purchasing.
The EPEAT standard IEEE 1680 and the associated database and web support will bring benefits to the market using the enormous leverage of institutional purchasing. Federal agencies and private […]

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Willingness to Pay for a Green PC

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

An interesting college research paper was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment 2006 Conference LINK, titled California Households’ Willingness to Pay for a Green PC.
Let it first be said, no study is perfect. This one used questions limited to a choice of a price increases of either 0, 1, 5 […]

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Uneven Progress in EU WEEE

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Researchers visiting for this week’s IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment 2006 Article LINK presented a basic overview of implementation progress in the European Union’s WEEE Directive.
Briefly, countries strongly committed to electronics recycling were showing substantial results, the majority of the current 27 member countries were just getting going, while a few major […]

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American Kids Care

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Nearly 20,000 students were surveyed about their attitudes and concerns regarding the environment on behalf of the Jane Goodall Insititute. According to the survey, one in four pre-teens and teens say they are “very worried” about environmental issues, particularly pollution, global warming and loss of natural habitat.
LINK

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GreenGrid Initiative

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Sun and AMD have recently launched high profile ad campaigns emphasizing energy saving features of their new products in conjunction with a cross-industry alliance called the GreenGrid.
InfoWorld Article LINK

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CA Body Burden Bill

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Grist Magazine reports on the bill SB 1379 being debated right now…
SFGate features a detailed article on toxics in breast milk, authors and some political action.
If you are a Californian, use this link to find your representative
LINK Support SB 1379 if you dare to know.

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Cool It!

Monday, May 8th, 2006

When something gets too hot, what do you do? Living being, or machine, if its going to live, or function, you cool it down, or at least slow down what is heating it up. Obvious, right? (I will leave that thought to another place and time)
What happens when you ingest a poison, or enough […]

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Wired on New Greens

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

The May 2006 issue of Wired Magazine features a series of stories under the banner “The Next Green Revolution — How technology is leading environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness.”
This is important! Although the pros and cons of BioTech and Nuclear Power are a little beyond the scope of this column, the fundemental tenant […]

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