Posts Tagged ‘ globalization ’

ctrp378 Electronic Ecosystems

ctrp378 Electronic Ecosystems

May 12, 2011

  As a designer, at some point David Kousemaker became interested in finding where our old phones and electronics in general end up once we in the western world throw them away.  His interest took him to parts of Indonesia, China, Brazil and Thailand, among other places. There he observed...

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Our Gadgets, Our Planet

Our Gadgets, Our Planet

May 9, 2011

  This week I will meet up with David Kousemaker of TechTravels to interview him about his work on the issue of where our old gadgets end up. More specifically we will delve into a topic that the mainstream world only occasionally alludes to when they mention how "somewhere in...

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Victims of the Tea Industry

Victims of the Tea Industry

June 11, 2007

In the 90's there was the big collapse of coffee prices, and the millions of farmers whose lives were ruined while their story was barely covered in the mainstream. Today I've been reading more and more about the collapse of tea prices in the last 10 years; ruining...

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bm184 Bangladesh, A Welcome Emergency

February 11, 2007

The few images you see in the international press paint a picture of protests in the streets and a goverment in crisis. Yet any real information about what is really happening in Bangladesh is rarely heard. In this program, with the help of my guest, documentary film maker...

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