Here's what we know: Freeport MacMoRan is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and the largest gold producer in the world. Producer is a funny term, they pull it from the earth. I suppose the production label comes from everything they do to the stuff they take from the earth.. the...
Earlier this year Michael Schaap went to DRCongo as part of the Fairphone fact finding mission. The goal was to better understand how the minerals that make up our technology, our mobile phones, are mined and how they travel from miners up through all the middle people and eventually...
For the past few months I have been watching online and listening to conversations offline about the initiative by a group of people here in Amsterdam which looks at how mobile phones are made and how their production effects people and the environment around the world. It is one of those...
Many of you out there are hoping I'll write more about Tomsk, and in time, I surely will. But one aspect of this trip that certainly overwhelms and makes it impossible to write much is the fact that I am nonstop on my way somewhere. A factor that I'm...
Some of you may recall a great guest I had on the podcast last year, Al Appleton, the man who saved the NYC water system. I thought of Al today as I read about how NY state has loosened restrictions on drilling for gas in the NYC watershed are. ...
