A Contributed Post: Recycling Your Tech
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that most electronic equipment with no further useful operating life (aka “e-waste”) isn’t really waste at all—it’s actually usable, marketable equipment and parts. In 2009, only 25 percent of discarded electronics (think computers and TVs) were collected for recycling, and only eight percent of cell phones were recycled. That is a lot of usable material put into the waste stream that could be kept out of landfills and used to reduce manufacturing costs and materials. Green your tech use with responsible electronics recycling. (more…)
Here’s another example of a phenomenon so plentiful in cleantech: it’s doable, but there are no economic reasons that it will ever be done. It’s a 
President Trump. Wow, it hurts just to type those words. Readers hoping for an upbeat take on the presidential election will have to look elsewhere, for instance, to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which wrote this morning:
Climate change is a complex phenomenon, so much so that it may never be possible to list all of its eventual effects. And admittedly, not all of them will be bad. In addition to the storms, droughts, famines, extinctions, etc., there will undoubtedly be a few advantages to a warmer Earth. Though no one believes that climate change will have a net benefit, we often hear of people who point to things like a longer growing season in Canada or reduced costs of shipping goods from Asia to North America due to the loss of Arctic ice (by 2040, there won’t be a single cube of ice in the Arctic Ocean in summer). 
Let’s not mince words. The enormous show of government force being applied to silence protesters’ exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and free assembly in North Dakota is nothing short of appalling. Replete with attack dogs and rubber bullets (see pic), this brutality has, for good reason, garnered a great deal of international rebuke.
Solar energy is a huge power resource all over the world, because as of last year solar power generates more than 1% of the electricity demand globally. That is no easy feat to achieve, because power generation market still is ruled by non renewables like oil, coal and natural gas. 
It seems sure that virtually every form of renewable energy will eventually wind up playing a role–somewhere. Just like the U.S. has wind in the Great Plains, solar in the Southwest and biomass in the Deep South, each part of the world has its own unique set of resources–and challenges–with respect to replacing fossil fuels with clean power. 
In a follow-up to my recent 
In response to my post 
