The Cost of Our Convenience Part Six: Designed to Die. How Planned Obsolescence Keeps the World Buying
There was a time when buying a refrigerator meant buying it for twenty years. Televisions were repaired, not replaced. Vacuum cleaners were handed down from one generation to the next. Mechanics rebuilt engines. Shoemakers repaired soles. Children wore clothes that had belonged …
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The Cost of Our Convenience Part Six: Designed to Die. How Planned Obsolescence Keeps the World Buying
There was a time when buying a refrigerator meant buying it for twenty years. Televisions w…
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The Cost of Our Convenience Part Five: Greenwashing the Global North; When Sustainability Becomes a Marketing Strategy
Walk into almost any electronics store today and you'll notice a familiar pattern. Gree…
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The Cost of Our Convenience Part Four: The Places the World Doesn't Want You to See
If you have never stood beside a mountain of broken computers, it is difficult to imagine t…
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The Cost of Our Convenience Part Three: Waste Colonialism When Pollution Follows Poverty
History has a way of changing its clothes. Sometimes it arrives wearing the uniform of an e…
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The Cost of Our Convenience - Part Two: The Toxic Playground: How Children Become the Recycling Industry
There are children whose earliest memories are not of playgrounds. Their childhood soundtra…
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The Cost of Our Convenience Part One: Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Where Our Electronics Really Go.
The average person upgrades a smartphone every two to three years. A laptop lasts perhaps f…
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Questions to Ask Your Publisher Before Hiring Them
You have written the book. You have poured your time, energy, and probably a few tears into…
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